Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happen for my sins to have been shadow Chancellor since the last election in 1987 , during which period there have been three Chancellors of the Exchequer . |
| 2 | All my life has been work and each other . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My life has been hell — and I did nothing wrong . |
| 4 | I was born in 1902 in Windsor , where my father was head gardener on a small estate named Abbey House , and where my mother had been cook . |
| 5 | ‘ Their lives had been hell and they were all very frightened . ’ |
| 6 | The ‘ man from the ministry ’ who had taken her statement about the crash and their escape had been kindness itself , but the effects had begun to creep up on her . |
| 7 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 8 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 9 | In recent years , all her wars had been frontier battles , fought round her coasts to repel raiders and oust alien settlements . |
| 10 | ‘ When Constanza got there she was told that her mother had made a mistake with her sleeping pills , her maid had been witness to that . |
| 11 | Her problem had been amnesia , not anaemia , she told Elise flippantly . |
| 12 | Previously its goal had been state sovereignty within a reformed Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 14 | What his work lacks is weight and substance , that underlying moral seriousness that informs the comedies of ( say ) Woody Allen . |
| 15 | Until November 1936 , the leitmotiv of his campaign had been speed , with the rapid conquest of Madrid as the prime objective . |
| 16 | Gore , who had made an impressive if unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 , was the product of a patrician southern family , his father having been Senator for Tennessee . |
| 17 | A quick check confirmed that , looking straight ahead , the threshold would appear where his helmet had been It took a dumbfounded second to realise that this illusion was caused by that blasted periscope , fulfilling its designed job , in the centre of my field of view . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 19 | Why should not his giving up his liberty to complain be consideration ? |
| 20 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |
| 21 | His brother has been king for more than three years . |
| 22 | ‘ No , my dear , they are concerned with ratings and as you stand by the sink drowned in misery you may console yourself that your loss has been radio 's gain . |
| 23 | Will your monster germ be part of the big show ? |
| 24 | She was the mother and the wife and the queen of the home , as Our Lady had been queen of the little family at Nazareth . |
| 25 | ‘ A lot of our patients have been country people and can remember having collies on their farms . |
| 26 | Now , that is something , that one would find difficult to accept normally , erm , but seeing as our Councillor has been chair of transportation , I believe in the past and also leader of the County Council , that then it it does make one wonder about erm , bud bud budgeting and raising expectations of people around the county unnecessarily . |
| 27 | It was a normal delivery , with only a little entonox at the end — something I felt really happy about as our daughter had been breech and delivered by caesarean section after a horrid , induced labour . |
| 28 | ‘ We thank you , Shih DeVore , but your hospitality has been reward enough . ’ |