Example sentences of "[verb] be [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've been her daughter . ’ |
| 2 | Er of course as I say , they er this was the ma the maternity bill I think was , would , would 've been my mother 's day more than mine you see because I mean then yo the woman did n't get the maternity allowance and |
| 3 | that Robert 's already gone over , but I actually got the impression that erm I that you did n't feel relaxed in what you were doing , you knew what you were talking about but erm you did n't feel relaxed and if I 'd 've been your customer then I , I certainly would n't have felt relaxed either and and that 's the impression that I got which was the completely opposite of Robert . |
| 4 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
| 5 | Apart from this attractive coloration , part of this species ' desirability has been its rarity , while another factor is its reputation as an extremely difficult fish to work with . |
| 6 | Yet , according to Structuralists who adopt a historical approach , notably those associated with the world-system approach of Immanuel Wallerstein , the central feature of the international capitalist system has been its capacity to maintain patterns of economic domination . |
| 7 | One of the achievements of the British ruling class historically has been its capacity to deflect opposition and resistance by calculated philanthropy and by the concentration on individualism as an explanation of success and failure . |
| 8 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 9 | A clear characteristic of the English public education service has been its dislocation and separation from the business community . |
| 10 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 11 | Up to now , Mitsubishi Electric 's only widely-reported involvement in microprocessors has been its tie-up with Fujitsu Ltd and Hitachi Ltd on the G-micro family of chips that are optimised to run Japan 's Tron real-time nucleus . |
| 12 | One of the most important features of the British outlook of the last hundred years has been its revelry in nostalgia and dislike of change . |
| 13 | Apart from problems inherent to plastic ( it is not as fast or manoeuvrable through the water as glassfibre ) a major weakness of the plastic used so far in sea kayaks has been its lack of rigidity . |
| 14 | And her dispatches indeed reveal a bombshell : that despite protestations to the contrary in white American fiction , race has been its subject matter all the time . |
| 15 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 16 | The more animals a household is obliged to sacrifice , the greater has been its misfortune . |
| 17 | One of the main complaints levelled against the Act has been its failure to eliminate , or even significantly reduce , the arbitrary exercise of discretion by magistrates . |
| 18 | The single most important aspect of the policy has been its introduction of training and enterprise councils — TECs , in the acronym-speak that clogs up all talk of the labour market . |
| 19 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 20 | But the shows triumph has been its appeal not just to the unaddressed , naff masses , but also to a fashionable audience of discerning clubbers who never set foot in the kind of clubs the programme broadcasts from , and to the extremist yuppie subgroup that reads both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Sport . |
| 21 | The sooner the potential customer selects a particular product or brand as meeting his or her purchase needs , the more successful has been its marketing . |
| 22 | Liverpool has been its stronghold . |
| 23 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 24 | It 's the second time this month , Mrs Jones has been robbed ; this tied cottage has been her home for 72 years . |
| 25 | When she fails to do this , she runs the heavy overall current-account deficit which it has been her misfortune to do of late . |
| 26 | This modern justification of the discretionary power of corporate managers has a parallel in administrative law where we find that one of the arguments used to legitimate conferring discretionary power on administrative agencies has been their expertise and special competence in a particular field . |
| 27 | ONE OF the beauties of doing the football pools over the years has been their simplicity , writes Mike Aitken . |
| 28 | Under his control , the LMP show in these two highly contrasted works from 1785–6 that the blend of tonal balance and stylistic accuracy which has been their trademark ever since the group was founded is better than ever . |
| 29 | Saints did show the free-running , slick football that has been their trademark this season late in the second half . |
| 30 | 1991 has been their year , achieving mass recognition with the stunning ‘ Gold Mother ’ album and the Top-5 chart hit single ‘ Sit Down ’ . |