Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb -s] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 2 | ‘ The very last thing my Department wants is any overt scandal with a CIA connection . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You do not know what my life has been these last ten years with him . |
| 4 | Their complaint has been that , so far at least , the market mechanism has not proved effective for such large volumes — British Steel , for example , spends £100 million annually on electricity , and ICI accounts for 2%-3% of all consumption in the UK . |
| 5 | After all the speculation about the possible disagreements between them , their encounter has been little short of anodyne . |
| 6 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 7 | The original environment of human evolutionary adaptedness can not be clearly defined because our evolution has been such an extraordinary progression of expansive diversifications in adapting to an immense range of environments . |