Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June . |
| 2 | The poll tax has been a nightmare which shows no sign of ending . |
| 3 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 4 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 5 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 6 | His subsequent career has been a switchback which reached its nadir five years ago , when Thomas Hearns produced a devastating right to the chin to knock him out and send him into retirement . |
| 7 | It has been a question which was first asked prior to Ofahengaue making his Wallaby debut when a late inclusion in the touring party on the 1990 tour to New Zealand . |
| 8 | One result of that has been a proposal I made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of the University of California at Santa Barbara : that both time and space are finite in extent , but they do n't have any boundary or edge . |
| 9 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 10 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 11 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 12 | I stress again that where there has been unlawful subletting which has determined ( and which has not been waived ) there has been a breach which at common law entitles the lessor to re-enter : nothing can be done to remedy that breach : the expiry of the subterm has not been annulled or remedied the breach : in such a case the lessor plainly need not , in his section 146 notice , call upon the lessee to remedy the breach which is not capable of remedy , and is free to issue his writ for possession , the possibility of relief remaining . |
| 13 | Once or twice this year there has been a suggestion you should seek fulfilment further afield — even radically changing location — and the time is ripe for this . |
| 14 | It has been an experience which I have enjoyed . |
| 15 | The last thing that manufacturing wants is a Government who adopt the European social charter which would destroy the advantage that we have in the west midlands . |
| 16 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 17 | I 've tried to tell him that the last thing Project Eden needs is an Administrator who 's crazy as a dakkabug , but will he listen to me ? ’ |
| 18 | What it needs is an historian who is n't afraid to jazz things up a bit — sidestep the facts and move the goalposts . |
| 19 | P. gibbiceps is a loricariid which comes from the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon . |
| 20 | The information it reads is a code which has now been broken and this is the code . |
| 21 | He 's been a bouncer I think . |
| 22 | It 's been a Christmas we will never forget , ’ said the winner of the Australian $1.5 million lottery . |
| 23 | I mean er I 've been told circumstances where there 's been a pensioners who ca n't move very well . |
| 24 | I know Claudia 's been a good stepmother-she 's the kindest woman in the world — but I thought he looked a sad sort of a boy . |
| 25 | Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing . |
| 26 | you know solid or there 's been an accident it tells you there 's an accident at , at this point |