Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few skills I possess is the ability to type with ten fingers . |
| 2 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 3 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 4 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 5 | That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that . |
| 6 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 7 | Observers noted an absence of the intimidation and violence which had been a feature of previous elections , all of which had been closely fought . |
| 8 | That was the end of the cinematic euphemisms for making love the misty dissolve , the rocketing fireworks or rearing waves which had been the director 's equivalent of the novelist 's three dots … |
| 9 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 10 | But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making . |
| 11 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 12 | The Britons were strong supporters of Albinus who had been the Governor of the Province , it follows that Severus would undoubtedly have dealt with them severely . |
| 13 | Some clubs are better than others , not all are interested in competition obedience , so if this is where your ambitions lie , make sure that the club you join is the type you are looking for . |
| 14 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 15 | Sir Cyril Norwood was the head of an Oxford college who had been the head of a Public School and written about leadership . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |
| 17 | 10.4 If , after returning to work , an employee who has been the victim of an incident of violence at work requests a transfer to other duties , such a request will be treated sympathetically . |
| 18 | The lads we met were a group who choose to meet with Father Patrick weekly . |
| 19 | The greatest impediment we encountered was the lack of a ‘ trigger ’ in Eileen 's case . |
| 20 | That is , unless we believe that language-users present each other with prefabricated chunks of linguistic strings ( sentences ) , after the fashion of Swift 's professors at the grand academy of Lagado ( Gulliver 's Travels , part 3 , chapter 5 ) , then we must assume that the data we investigate is the result of active processes . |
| 21 | The concept of a separation of science from religion during the seventeenth century implies that during preceding centuries there had been a fusion . |
| 22 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 23 | Recently in the Department there has been an instance of a telephone order which has been brought to my attention by the County Council auditors . |
| 24 | In the United States there have been a number of challenges to the Presidential power to conclude international agreements that allegedly interfere with constitutionally guaranteed rights . |
| 25 | In the United States there have been a number of major studies of the redistributive impact of the government budget , including in recent years that by Musgrave and associates ( 1974 ) and Who Bears the Tax Burden ? by Pechman and Okner ( 1974 ) . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 27 | been a lot , on cars there 's been a lot of |
| 28 | Among the Paracelsians there had been an emphasis on inner illumination , which could be perceived as a threat to established forms of religion . |
| 29 | Already in this chapter there has been a discussion of the factors which appear to contribute to varying regional prosperity . |
| 30 | Indeed for Beaton there had been no suggestion of acting for Spencer Tracy , George Raft , and John Wray had ensured that the movie was ‘ peopled with human beings ’ . |