Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [noun] [verb] be " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 32 | In recent years , all her wars had been frontier battles , fought round her coasts to repel raiders and oust alien settlements . |
| 33 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 34 | All her hair had been burnt away but for the black roots and her features hideously charred . |
| 35 | at Claire 's , yeah , er , she 'd been a passenger and somebody had come into them and oh she was in a hell of a state , all , lucky to be alive really , she nearly lost erm , her arm and everything , lost , nearly lost the use of her arm , she 's had a lot of facial surgery stuff and that and all her teeth had been knocked out and oh she was in hospital for months and months |
| 36 | In spite of all her problems Rose was keeping to schedule . |
| 37 | She then said she had somehow ‘ known ’ it would happen , that all her fears had been justified — instead of realising that her terror had pulled it into her life . |
| 38 | All her fears had been of Adam dead , Adam never waking from his trance , Adam turned into an automaton . |
| 39 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
| 40 | ‘ All her straining has been useless , ’ Sophie said . |
| 41 | All her life had been spent surrounded by grimy bricks with hardly a green grass blade in sight . |
| 42 | When , at last , he stripped off his clothes and came into her , it was as if this was the moment to which all her life had been leading . |
| 43 | All her savings have been spent on unpaid bills left behind by her husband . |
| 44 | It was as if all her energy had been sucked out of her . |
| 45 | Italy and Greece , on the other hand , were unhappy about their milk quota increases of 900,000 tonnes and 100,000 respectively being delayed until they have satisfied the commission that all its conditions have been met . |
| 46 | To some extent , however , Parliament goes off ‘ half-cocked ’ — a Bill is conceived of as being urgent and is introduced before all its complexities have been thoroughly worked through . |
| 47 | All its recommendations had been implemented . |
| 48 | He wrote in his book , The Art of Birdwatching , ‘ For those who practise it , bird watching is not only a sport and a science , but also something near a religion , and after all its externals have been inventoried , the essence remains — incommunicable . ’ |
| 49 | When the camera crew arrived three days later , the shelter was covered in graffiti and all its glass had been shattered . |
| 50 | Jubert also recalls the man in his regiment who , returning from the front , was overjoyed to find his house on the outskirts of Verdun still intact ; but , on discovering that all its contents had been methodically plundered , he simply burst into laughter . |
| 51 | The government of C. R. ( later Earl ) Attlee accepted the recommendations ; Turner 's second decade as director was devoted primarily to implementing them , recruiting and training young scholars , including many whose interest had been aroused during war service in Asia or Africa , and building up strong academic departments . |
| 52 | ‘ You may have the best relationship in the world but if you do not provide your account manager with the ammunition to fight your corner then all his boss sees is a problem account . ’ |
| 53 | Souness is partly to blame — he has a big L plate and not all his buys have been successes . |
| 54 | All his memoranda had been circulated and should have been digested by now . |
| 55 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 56 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 57 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 58 | In the meantime , all his friends have been dispatched by serial killers , his dad , wrongly accused of the crimes , has killed himself and his mum has gone mad . |
| 59 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 60 | The trade in all his restaurants had been slack over the past couple of weeks , and he was glad to see so many lunchtime diners . |