Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 3 | I am conscious of the late payment problem , which is something to which we are devoting great attention . |
| 4 | Trapped by nets or felled by corded arrow Hen and cock are parted one dawn . |
| 5 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 6 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 7 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 8 | Intermediates could see even less well than their imperfect ancestors , and it is no consolation that they are building better eyesight for their remote descendants ! |
| 9 | Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz are building new car factories in the east , at a cost of DM5 billion and DM1 billion respectively . |
| 10 | The Japanese are building artificial ski slopes in a new material which is claimed to closely simulate the sensation of snow . |
| 11 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 12 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 13 | I 've only been to see one game so far this season , so it 's difficult for me to judge , but maybe some of you who 've been more often could speculate ? |
| 14 | So you still have n't been to see this house in are you ? |
| 15 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 16 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 17 | The TCCB , who are financing this year 's competition , have decided that no trophy will be awarded to the winners of the Sunday League . |
| 18 | Congress , I understand the C E C are accepting this resolution for the qualifications so I will be brief . |
| 19 | I believe the C E C are accepting this motion and therefore the principle that 's contained therein . |
| 20 | Apart from that , you are wasting good knitting time while you are popping around with deliveries . |
| 21 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 22 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 23 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 25 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 26 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 27 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 28 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 29 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 30 | Babies in high nitrate areas are given bottled water . |