Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was doing something all I heard was the sound of this chair . |
| 2 | She could n't help thinking that perhaps she had been the cause of his bad mood . |
| 3 | All they need is the bed . |
| 4 | All they need is the bed . |
| 5 | All they need is the planning permission and certainly the landowners will sell them the land , and if we put in stringent rules and regulations then we could control it properly . |
| 6 | It 's just that while we 've been together it 's been the activity you 've indulged in most . |
| 7 | Perhaps it had been the Prince or Gaveston ? |
| 8 | Perhaps it had been the vodka working . |
| 9 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 10 | But the government believes that the penalties have not been high enough and that hitherto it has been the workers and not company owners , the real culprits , who have been punished . |
| 11 | But after our win against Slough confidence is high and anyway we like being the underdogs . ’ |
| 12 | Already they 've been the target of attacks from warring factions . |
| 13 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 14 | She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time . |
| 15 | It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget . |
| 16 | Also it has been the larger institutions that have benefited from low dealing commissions since the ‘ big bang ’ in October 1987 . |
| 17 | Traditionally it had been the poor who had deferred marriage until they could become independent in an economy of the margins , but the early impact of industrialisation appears to have broken the pattern . |
| 18 | Whereas formerly he had been the subject of history , taking pride of place in God 's historical scheme from creation onwards , now ‘ the human being no longer has any history : or rather , since he speaks , works , and lives , he finds himself interwoven in his own being with histories that are neither subordinate to him nor homogeneous with him ’ ( 368 — 9 ) . |
| 19 | What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them . |
| 20 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 21 | I will be next week , but up to now I 've been the Deputy Managing Director . |
| 22 | What really we thought was the idea of this to pin them down into er in who was doing it and when . |
| 23 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 24 | Ironically it has been the left , the architects of reselection , who have been under greatest threat . |
| 25 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 26 | More often it has been the engineers and the ecologists who have done so with lawyers , economists and political scientists sometimes joining in ( Hare , 1980 , p. 381 ) . |
| 27 | Perhaps originally it had been the cellar of a Merchant 's House , for it had walls varying between three and four feet in thickness , whereas the walls of the house where I spent my boyhood were only one brick or nine inches thick . |
| 28 | Every time I come up here I think is the alright , that one . |
| 29 | But the tone and guest list at this party was very different ; here it seemed were the elusive Delhi jeunesse dorée . |
| 30 | Here it has been the archivists who have had to confront the difficulties posed by record retention as they attempt to fulfil their statutory duties . |