Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 2 | One of the few to grasp what was happening was Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens Van der Post , the South African writer who had been a POW and who spoke Dutch . |
| 3 | There medical ethics did not prove an obstacle , there being divided medical opinions , but the wardship jurisdiction of the court was invoked by a local authority educational psychologist who had been involved with the case . |
| 4 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 5 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 6 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 7 | You kindly said that you would call hon. Members next week who had been rising . |
| 8 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 9 | The fifty nine year old singer who 'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday . |
| 10 | Dick Evans , the BAe chief executive who has been leading the negotiations , said yesterday that he was now looking forward to further discussions with the Saudi authorities about their specific requirements and priorities . |