Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , the carol festivals are on and there 's one at Thaxted , which might be quite nice , actually , erm it 's on the same page , the previous column And someone 's just taken a driving test at ninety one . |
| 2 | Traditionally , the people 's singing has been delegated to a choir which is generally paid a nominal fee . |
| 3 | Perhaps next year we shall discuss flagship problems and decide that each boat must belong to a producers ' or other organisation , which is then allocated a quota from the United Kingdom TAC . |
| 4 | Both Conservative and Labour MPs are divided on the issue , which is always allowed a free vote . |
| 5 | An important paper was read for her in 1900 to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by her cousin , Gerard Baldwin Brown [ q.v. ] , and thereafter controversial articles in learned journals culminated in 1912 in the publication by John Murray of The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles , which is still considered a seminal work on the subject . |
| 6 | A paragraph , on the other hand , has its main point or direction indicated in the opening sentence , which is sometimes called a TOPIC SENTENCE . |
| 7 | No I 've got , I 've got a dress at home which is like flared a black one . |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody 's ever given a member of staff here flowers before , ’ he observed with a twinkle . |
| 9 | So er and and they 're quite I mean if nobody 's ever seen a er erm |
| 10 | Well no , no , erm but would n't know if you saw one , you people only tell us but , but nobody 's ever seen a ghost in there so |
| 11 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 12 | She 's already missed a couple of days . ’ |
| 13 | She 's already taped a bit in the common room . |
| 14 | She 's already undergone an operation to have shrapnel removed from her back . |
| 15 | She 's probably enticed a man with a beard and a lot of snotty children away from his wife , and she 'll be shacked up with them in a mobile home on the outskirts of Llangollen , cooking beans and magic mushrooms and playing the flute and moaning about the artificial restrictions of society . ’ |
| 16 | She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's inundated with work over there she 's just done a 13-part sitcom for CBS , for example . ’ |
| 18 | poor woman , she 's just done a |
| 19 | She 's even introduced a mini wedding cake , still three tiers , but with the cakes only eight , six or four inches across ‘ looks much more special than one single tier but is n't too big for a small wedding . ’ |
| 20 | My Mum has it — I do n't think she 's ever bought a cassette before . |
| 21 | Find out if she 's ever thrown a race . |
| 22 | any problems , any problems the council for er two years , there are and I think that she 's actually provided a very significant contributions to the council . |
| 23 | She 's hardly eaten a thing since she got here , and last night I went into the kitchen and found her looking terrible . ’ |
| 24 | But she , the last couple of days she 's hardly eaten a thing |
| 25 | ‘ She 's really done a lot , like , she 's the one who brought punk to Britain . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's always wanted a daughter . |
| 27 | So she was , she was into Volkswagen Polos , she 's always liked a little run-around , she 'd like a Volkswagen Polo , and . |
| 28 | She 's always led a very active life . |
| 29 | She 's spent 6 years researching his life and she 's now written a book which describes him as a talented , but essentially ordinary man . |
| 30 | Despite her failure to enter the teaching profession , she 's now published a book promoting phonetic teaching . |