Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 2 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 3 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 4 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 5 | She 's been away all week |
| 6 | So what just i , well my eldest daughter away and she 's been away this month twenty six years . |
| 7 | ‘ No , she 's been here all night . |
| 8 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 9 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
| 10 | There has been yet another substantial increase in resources for the NHS , and that will enable a continuing reduction in waiting lists and better service for all those who use the NHS . |
| 11 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |
| 12 | There has been precious little attention to giving basic education to the general public on the art of wise borrowing . |
| 13 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 14 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 15 | Given the undoubted importance of deixis to philosophical , Psychological and linguistic approaches to the analysis of language , there has been surprisingly little work of a descriptive nature in the area , with a Consequent lack of adequate theories and frameworks of analysis . |
| 16 | In the past 20 years , however , there has been considerably more activity and publicity for econometrics in the UK , leading to often vigorous debate in specialist magazines such as Admap . |
| 17 | If league tables from North America were being reviewed these would probably show greater variation in analytical approach as there has been considerably more research into , and validation of , measures of health state preference . |
| 18 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 19 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 20 | There has been so much talk of saturated and unsaturated fats that most people have heard of them . |
| 21 | There has been so much mourning to do . |
| 22 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 23 | To explore why there has been so much flux in the structures of competition , some basic distinctions are needed . |
| 24 | Ireland has had so much , she thought ; there has been so much magic and so much strength , and now all of it has gone . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 26 | In fact there has been so much to amuse that I have scarcely read a book and have written but little . |
| 27 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 28 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 29 | However , there has been so much midweek domestic football this season that all but the most committed supporters — 12,178 of them in Glasgow , 3,546 in Perth — turned their backs on Tuesday night 's matches . |
| 30 | It is surprising therefore , that there has been so little public interest in this country in proposals to release into the environment living , man-made creatures . |