Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 32 | It has been our purpose here to indicate what has been successful in the past , and the strong technical basis which underpins success . |
| 33 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 34 | Everything Suzanna had made me feel was alive again , magnified a hundred times . |
| 35 | It will be necessary to confirm that all restrictions have been observed and if they have not been observed , to confirm that consent to vary or discharge them has been forthcoming . |
| 36 | It says I 've been good at the doctor today . |
| 37 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 38 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 39 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 40 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 41 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 42 | Matt said , ‘ Silas says you 've been busy in the office . ’ |
| 43 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 44 | I hope you have been able to develop and promote your ideas with other interested parties since then , but I share your sense of frustration at the slow progress and limited imagination being displayed . |
| 45 | He says there 's been proper consultation with the local communities and the local authorities including the parish councils . |
| 46 | In the half century since the " Big Book " was written there has been continuing effort to reduce the number of people who fail to find recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 47 | But by looking at this document here , it would appear there 's been more violence committed there against lawful pickets and yet that does n't make the national press . |
| 48 | They have also cast doubt on his client 's character by implying there 's been some sort of fraud . |
| 49 | John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 50 | Photographs of that time show him to have been clean shaven and crisply dressed . |
| 51 | But since the Vietnamese Zone of Peace and Stability has won little support they have been reluctant to reject out of hand the ZOPFAN proposal if this eventually could provide the basis of a long-term settlement of the disputes between Indo-China and the ASEAN states and encourage a military disengagement of the ASEAN states from the West . |
| 52 | Take note of people 's comments , and especially note what features they think are important . |
| 53 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 54 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 55 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 56 | First and foremost , I hope they have been interesting — more than that , fascinating — for if language analysis fails to fascinate us , something is seriously rotten in the state of Denmark — and I learned that lesson from a Dane , Otto Jespersen , whose papers on language never failed to fascinate . |
| 57 | AS a teacher with 12 years in the firing line , I think grading schools on the amount of exam passes they get is dangerous . |
| 58 | because I 've noticed he 's been sleepy he 's all blocked up all all over there . |
| 59 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 60 | One resident says he has been unable to get out of his back garden after a lorry backed into the wall and buckled the gate . |