Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb -s] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry yours has been wasted . ’ |
| 2 | But in all of this she has been the least public : less frequently on conference platforms , much less in print . |
| 3 | I 'm afraid she 's been badly cut . |
| 4 | Because of this it has been popular at cat shows in the United States for several decades . |
| 5 | In support of this it has been pointed out that two distinct kinds of descriptive statement can be made about a verbal work of art . |
| 6 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 7 | Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home . |
| 8 | For this he has been smeared and victimised . |
| 9 | This he believes is where his future lies in Europe . |
| 10 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 11 | In the last 12 he 's been here at Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire and has raised £150,000 for charity . |
| 12 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 13 | It is good to observe a correct diet , even if for some it means being a vegetarian . |
| 14 | So for some it 's been a blessing . |
| 15 | Since 1985 he has been dedicated to the development and implementation of practical/operational expert systems for different sectors of industry including aerospace . |
| 16 | And how painful it 's been at times to love you . |
| 17 | To get a different view , and yet I it 's been very interesting it 's been very interesting |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid he 's been sent off to the railway , sir . |
| 19 | As such it has been identified as part of a general movement towards scientific naturalism in American thought and is associated with the behaviourist turn taken in political science and , in the study of law , with the legal realist movement which flourished in the inter-war period . |
| 20 | As such it has been used as a very weak tea ( 6g/¼oz to 600ml/1 pint/2½ cups of water ) ( one cup per day ) by male artists and craftsmen . |
| 21 | Since the abolition of exchange controls in the UK in October 1979 it has been possible for residents of the UK to hold foreign currency on account if they so wish . |
| 22 | Since August 1991 he has been a key member of the Planning Team preparing for the European Summit Meeting at the Palace on 11 – 12 December 1992 and organising the subsequent reinstatement works . |
| 23 | The Gala youngster acknowledges how fortunate he has been in the folk who have advised him along the way . |
| 24 | Italy : Since October 1991 it has been compulsory for employers/appropriate authorities to offer hepatitis B vaccine free of charge to a wide range of occupational groups including : police officers , fire fighters |
| 25 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |
| 26 | In chapters 6 and 7 it has been established that accurate reduction in the amplitude of alternating potential difference or current can be achieved using a transformer . |
| 27 | To be honest it 's been seven months of hell . |
| 28 | Built in 1500 it has been beautifully restored to offer character accommodation of quality . |
| 29 | How sad he has been , he says ; he had no need to be , she replies . |
| 30 | He realizes as she says it how much he 's been missing her and all the rest of them . |