Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they have not been in government ( eg , the ex-communist Party of the Democratic Left in Italy ) , they have profited , being relatively scandal-free . |
| 2 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 3 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 4 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 5 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 6 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 7 | The only messages that I give off are of faint delirium and desperate indecision . |
| 8 | The figures that I read out are for the first year . |
| 9 | You might like to know that I have recently been in touch with a Mme Francine Roussel ( University of Nancy II , 23 Blvd Albert 1e , Nancy 54000 ) who is just completing a survey review of concordancers . |
| 10 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 11 | This is the sad thing in my life that I have never been in contact with my grandchildren . |
| 12 | I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm fitter than I 've ever been in my life . |
| 14 | ‘ I am happier with Gwen than I have ever been in my life — I love her very deeply and I miss her when I 'm not there . ’ |
| 15 | Although you have not been in the manager 's seat very long , you have done nothing to alter my original opinion that your appointment makes about as much sense as the Charge of the Light Brigade . |
| 16 | Only that you 've not been on his bike or yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 18 | Now we 're delighted to see you here because we know that the , the G M B shares this view and we know that you 've also been in the forefront of introducing technology , er and we know also that having you here er , having your conference here , helps us enormously to continue this process of raising the profile of the trades unions , the trades council , the labour movement in the city . |
| 19 | It 's clear that you 've never been in the services . ’ |
| 20 | The palazzo is an excellent town house dating from the early sixteenth-century , although almost all that you see now is from a remodelling in 1841 . |
| 21 | ‘ If you do n't help me , I shall make you more miserable than you have ever been in your life . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 23 | All these workshops that have been going on that we have n't been to . |
| 24 | Erm the loyalist paramilitaries have become much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in their history . |
| 25 | They 're much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in the past . |
| 26 | Most modern houses have very little fortuitous ventilation because improved standards of insulation and draught-proofing have made them much more air-tight than they have ever been in the past . |
| 27 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 28 | Moreover , mystical movements are no more prevalent in the West than they have ever been from the Dionysian rites to the temple of Aimee McPherson . |
| 29 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 30 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |