Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience here has been positive . |
| 2 | My attention here has been held far more by the enigma of syntactic structure , and how its development might mesh with the conceptual analyses of meaning and intentionality offered by philosophers of language . |
| 3 | ‘ Now I 'm going to concentrate on my music and give my career more focus being with a company that understands what I 'm doing . |
| 4 | I was told that my chances now have been greatly reduced of ever having my own family . |
| 5 | My mother undoubtedly had been counting , but she would have put the numbers out of her mind since they were evidence , at the very least , of instability on the part of her future son-in-law . |
| 6 | Since July the bureaucrats of the foreign-trade monopoly who knew how to sell its products abroad have been sacked . |
| 7 | What her story clearly shows is that Bart 's is no ancient , crumbling institution with empty beds . |
| 8 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 9 | What their words really imply is that they do not want to think about why they are out of breath on stairs . |
| 10 | In December 1989 , coinciding with an improvement in Soviet-Vatican relations , Uniate congregations had been allowed legally to register [ see p. 37129 ] , and while the Uniate Church still did not formally enjoy full legal status most obstacles to its operating legally had been removed by the October 1990 Soviet law on freedom of worship [ see pp. 37787-88 ] . |
| 11 | It was originally a large , stout , hardy draught animal at a time when beef came mainly from plough oxen once they were no longer in prime working condition ( typical of meat production in many countries even now ) and was then developed as a triple-purpose draught , meat and milk type but it soon evolved into essentially a beef animal and in that role its influence worldwide has been immense and far-reaching . |
| 12 | One company that puts all its business out to tender is Ranks Hovis McDougall , which spends around £18 million per year on electricity supplies for its 60-plus production sites in the UK . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly the method works in Purdue , and reports are that its adoption elsewhere has been generally successful . |
| 14 | But the idea that it is ‘ unfair ’ for those who backed the biggest party in a coalition to see its policy then diluted is bogus : in politics as in marriage , if you can not win outright , you must compromise . |
| 15 | Her ravishment too had been part of the scheme of things . |
| 16 | The pictures of her life yet to come were as vivid , and yet she could see no meaning in them . |
| 17 | Her life hitherto had been a preparation — she recognized that now . |
| 18 | Its growth however has been constantly threatened by the size of the oil import bill . |
| 19 | Humiliated , she 'd crept away , knowing that her brother too had been interested in the unknown girl . |
| 20 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 21 | How could his enthusiasm not have been aroused by so inspiring a personality ? |
| 22 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 23 | All his kind generally wanted was a quick flirtation , an acquiescent woman , and a no-strings parting the following morning . |
| 24 | However , hopes that defender Mark Ogley would make his debut today have been dashed due to ‘ contractual complications ’ over his move from Aldershot . |
| 25 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 26 | The glamour and glitter of London that his wife clearly loved was not for him and at any opportunity , he would fly back by helicopter to Highgrove late at night . |
| 27 | His sensory feedback had not informed him that this was happening even though the tension needed to throw his head back had been tremendous . |
| 28 | ‘ Danny Ram ? ’ he said , holding his head aslant to avoid being scorched . |
| 29 | This rather contradicts his claim never to have been an IRA member . |
| 30 | His life here has been one long series of decisions taken with difficulty , of crises resolved . |