Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet , liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone has been here and fairly recently . ’ |
| 3 | Yet another relevant ideology , which infects judges , governments and the general public in greater or lesser degrees at different times , is the ideology of law and order , which has been notably and provocatively analysed by the Marxist theorist Stuart Hall ( 1979 , 1990 ; Hall et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | The prolific contemporary literature about Mary , which has been extensively and effectively reviewed by J. E. Phillips , Images of a Queen , was all understandable enough . |
| 5 | The first question begs many others — but those of us who are familiar with some of the history of the disabled people 's movement will recognise that today 's ‘ disability professionals ’ are on a career path which has been carefully and painstakingly carved out by generations of their predecessors . |
| 6 | It is at this ‘ point-of-sale ’ that consumers make their choice , a subject which has been carefully and extensively researched by Stoddard Templeton . |
| 7 | However , the physician which has been more than happy to dish out expensive advice to clients on how they they should deal with their own ills , has been unable to heal itself . |
| 8 | One particular group of people which has been more or less completely overlooked are those who became disabled in childhood or adulthood , and who are now ageing with a disability . |
| 9 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 10 | Structure , comprising the old core and a number of peripheral estates , which has been socially and spatially divisive . |
| 11 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 12 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 13 | ‘ Wait but a few moments here for me , ’ she said more gently , ‘ for I must make my farewell to the Lady Percy , who has been more than kind to me . ’ |
| 14 | Otherwise their wonderful staff seemed the same as ever , headed by Mrs Julie Hughes who runs the place so well ; Miss Barbara Hopkins , who has been there since Forest Mere opened , and is invaluable in seeing you have every comfort in your bedroom . |
| 15 | The article was obviously written by a woman who has been there and survived , as I have . |
| 16 | She 's been once or twice . |
| 17 | In the early days , they simply challenged the notion of " excessive trade competition " and were not " prepared to admit that there has been much if any reduction in the price paid [ elsewhere ] for good bookwork , which has always formed the staple of the Edinburgh trade " . |
| 18 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 19 | Thus there has been more than enough time for selection to generate specific DNA sequences of the required length . |
| 20 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 21 | And if anybody 's been away and has got or has got missing sheets I 've got spare sheets down here . |
| 22 | He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit , pinstriped shirt , spotted tie and Gucci shoes ; or perhaps he has been home and changed , and is now sporting yellow cords , a maroon V-necked jersey , and highly polished brown brogues . |
| 23 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 24 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 25 | Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised . |
| 26 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 27 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |
| 28 | Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated . |
| 29 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 30 | THOUGH it has been more than 30 years since Jim Chilchutt last cut a rug at a high-school dance , he recaptures his lost youth every weekend , cruising the streets of Ventura behind the wheel of a 1948 Studebaker . |