Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the real issue has been something quite different : the development of ‘ warehouses ’ and shopping malls outside town centres on land originally designated for industrial use . |
| 2 | And so far Conservative strategy has been anything but effective . |
| 3 | And it would n't have been so bad il the owner had been anybody else but Mrs Rumney ; I found that even discussing the thing with her had become almost unbearable . |
| 4 | ‘ He … he mentioned something about it being a scoop , that the man involved was someone well known … but , of course , he meant you ! ’ |
| 5 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , the minimal change required is one necessarily involving one or more full lexical items , then it would seem justifiable to diagnose the deviance as semantic . |
| 7 | And in the corner there , where there in fact had been something very heavy , the tiles had not been removed but left . |