Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Also examined are how these households organise their domestic time and tasks , and their attitudes to the changing patterns of work and the problems which arise . |
2 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
3 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
4 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
5 | Nearly all the walls and woodwork in the house are washed with colour — a technique which produces are more gentle effect than straight painting . |
6 | The majority of children referred are over five years , and the Society is actively seeking families who can meet the needs of these children . |
7 | Extraordinary profits , you may be surprised to see are only twelve point nine million after the Elserver sale but that is a function of the write back of good will on the disposal of Elserver which you will see explained in the preliminary statement , thus reducing the er , profit from two hundred and twenty nine million , which was the estimate at the interim , to thirty five million for the year as a whole . |
8 | It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels . |
9 | Trapping and snaring are both professional methods of rabbit control . |
10 | There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims . |
11 | OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House . |
12 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
13 | There has been wide public interest in international comparisons of schooling in recent years . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 … ’ |
16 | There has been most impressive progress in Sheffield . |
17 | To the astonishment of some , the nursery — opened just over a year ago — has been most popular option . |
18 | The quarry has been here 200 years and is part of the landscape , rather than a blot on it . ’ |
19 | He has been here eight years . |
20 | Raskolnikov has been here three years . |
21 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
24 | Pollitt believed that " there can be no real and effective People 's Front unless there has been already united action within the Labour Movement itself . " |
25 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Even that would be better than the policy Vacuum there has been since Black Wednesday . |
28 | Hair has been vertically spiral wound on large rods by Beverly Kyprianou at Cobella |
29 | 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 . |
30 | As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation . |