Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] has just [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 2 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 3 | A couple of hours after drafting this , I receive a call from a local health visitor asking advice about a child who has just been diagnosed . |
| 4 | Ms Achtenberg is an avowed lesbian who has just been confirmed as an assistant secretary in the department of Housing and Urban Development . |
| 5 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 6 | Erm it comes back to the point which has just been made about the er , about the erm why have this system of election by thirds and almost backfired on , on , on , on the leader of the council yeah ? |
| 7 | The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions . |
| 8 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 9 | The graveyard wall itself has just been spray-painted — the colour is barely dry on a five-foot-high blue swastika , and the artists have not taken time to dot the i's on the words DEAD YIDS INSIDE . |
| 10 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 11 | Measures of productivity in services — even within the restricted area which has just been examined — are , of course , subject to wide margins of error . |
| 12 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |
| 13 | If Albany speaks , it suggests an attempt to reassert authority he has just been trying to give away ( as Gurr proposes about as upbeat a close as leaving Denmark in Fortinbras 's control ) . |
| 14 | For the moment , however , we want to consider what might be involved in the processing of an individual clause , and we will suggest that the additional processing load at the end of clauses arises because of several different processes , some concerned with understanding the syntax and semantics of the clause which has just been read , and others with the relating of information in this clause to earlier information in the passage . |
| 15 | As each excavator removes a layer of soil , decisions have to be constantly made : whether that soil is part of the layer which has just been removed or part of another layer ; where the boundaries to that layer are ; what the relationship of the layer is to the adjoining layers ; whether a soil sample is required ; and so on . |
| 16 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 17 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 18 | The letter which has just been found refers to something like called a police operational order authorising the raid , saying that had disappeared by the time the police complaints authority started looking for it . |
| 19 | But the reform of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy , or CAP which has just been agreed barely makes a nod to organic farmers . |
| 20 | Just up the hill from us is a small pig-raising factory which has just been built and , as the sun sets behind the hills of our old enemy Tuscany , across the valley , we can hear the squeals of feeding time and , we fear , of transport and slaughter time . |
| 21 | Finally , a look at Air Domes Ltd. , a new London based company which has just been formed to market the Yeadon Air structure . |
| 22 | If you are confident that he has been so immersed in his chattering that he has n't a clue what has just been said , turn to him and say : " A very interesting point has just been raised ; what is your opinion , Mr C. ? " |
| 23 | Now fully waymarked , the route is described in a booklet which has just been released . |
| 24 | The new high speed devices are the PALCE 16V8H-5 , 20V8H-5 and 22V10H-7 family which has just been released . |
| 25 | All the same , he found it pleasant to watch Hari reviving like a thirsty plant which has just been watered . |