Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I 've been a while , I went into mum 's to take her shopping in and Uncle Philip was there . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry I 've been a bit steady getting there , but I think it 's an important issue to tackle that , quality is horses for courses and we have to accept the fact that we 're gon na get prestige type jobs and quick slick jobs , especially in the beginning of March every year . |
| 3 | Sorry I 've been a time . |
| 4 | How vain I feel is an attempt for me with all my weight of immorality and worry and dull ( not bad ) health to sweeten you who are so pure and without care and of bright health . |
| 5 | The Whitby line , another which has been the subject of closure worries , will serve shoppers better and has new connections at Grosmont for the North York Moors Railway . |
| 6 | In April 2 there had been a clash between the security forces and civilians in the Bassatine suburb of southern Cairo after the security forces had intervened to prevent the distribution of tracts hostile to the regime . |
| 7 | And from that moment to this there had been no opportunity for any kind of personal discussion . |
| 8 | Alongside this there has been a move towards non-elected and usually specialist forms of local government . |
| 9 | However , since about 1985 there had been a divergence of judicial thinking on the subject and the law was at a cross-roads . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid there 's been a bit of bother , Mrs Mitchell , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Since the 1980's there has been a renaissance of interest in ethnography . |
| 12 | This they knew was the work of wolves . |
| 13 | This they argue is the ideal at the heart of twentieth century suburbia . |
| 14 | It is good to observe a correct diet , even if for some it means being a vegetarian . |
| 15 | So for some it 's been a blessing . |
| 16 | When the Royal Bank bought the building in 1825 it had been the Government Office of Excise and quite correctly bore the Royal arms , although no-one had got around to updating them . |
| 17 | The background to the situation which I have described is that in December 1990 and January 1991 there had been an uprising in Somalia in the course of which the President , Siad Barre , had been overthrown . |
| 18 | Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ . |
| 19 | Since 1979 there has been a reversal in regional policy . |
| 20 | The young man then died an unheroic death , riding his motorcycle underneath a lorry in Hammersmith and Vanessa 's emotions fed on the tragedy until she was convinced he had been the love of her life . |
| 21 | ‘ He was training last week and two little lads came in the gym , and immediately Eubank stopped what he was doing and started to teach them how to box — you 've no idea just how much he loves being a champion . ’ |
| 22 | Our interview with her was the first news she had ever had that she had been the subject of a judgement summons . |
| 23 | You missed a couple off that proactive I think is the buzz word it 's called seem less production so . |
| 24 | Indeed , since the Domesday Survey of 1086 there had been no government measure which had produced a record of this . |
| 25 | During the Norwegian Campaign of early 1940 he had been a member of 263 Squadron flying Gladiators , and had claimed one victory and a share in another before being wounded . |
| 26 | The big thermometer on the refuge wall read zero degrees C , and I recalled how cold it had been the night before during our four hour drive from Madrid . |
| 27 | Oh that one look 's a bit to bit to tight does n't it ? |
| 28 | All my has been the way it should . |
| 29 | I 've written a great many books for children and some for adults about children ( several from both categories have caused a wave of national commotion ) , broadcasted , televised , been translated into every language including some I had n't realised existed — and what about a bizarre unidentifiable Japanese edition that is put out as one of my books , that for all I know is a codebook for terrorists or drug-runners ! |
| 30 | All I know is the name Raphael . ’ |