Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , my field work has been in Africa , mostly , ’ he said patiently . |
| 2 | Since its ‘ theft ’ my living room has been under siege from Mark ‘ The Scoop ’ Crowe , the Argus sports hack . |
| 3 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 4 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 5 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 6 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 7 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 8 | A steward will manage the manor and My Lord Cardinal has been only too pleased to appoint a schoolmaster so your noble establishment can continue . |
| 9 | Carmen Callil said : ‘ I 've been working with Frances Coady since 1986 , when she joined Jonathan Cape , and one of the greatest pleasures of my working life has been to observe the publishing genius she has brought to beat on the creation of Vintage . |
| 10 | She comments , ‘ I doubt if my working life has been well organised enough to call it a career , but running various businesses has been very satisfying ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Because my love life has been such a mess ! ’ |
| 12 | Counteracting my cancer cells has been an evolutionary process in which a whole series of different ‘ attacks ’ have been launched depending upon the information I have on myself , how and what I feel . |
| 13 | ‘ I understand , Mr Grierson , that my brother Roy has been shunting your daughter . ’ |
| 14 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 15 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 16 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 17 | Her work experience has been various , including that of Director of an environmental research institute . |
| 18 | From its infancy philosophy has been struck with a horror of the other that remains other — with an insurmountable allergy … |
| 19 | American firms have been luckier : their interest rates have been falling , so the state of their cash flow has been the main worry . |
| 20 | How may the message be disentangled from the original imagery through which it was conveyed , or is this to distort and change its meaning Farrer has been criticized by Ian Barbour who writes : ‘ By his appeal to authority , Farrer makes ‘ authorized images ’ immune to criticism … . |
| 21 | Iraq 's oil production is some 1 million barrels per day less than Iran 's but its war effort has been supported by aid from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both by direct practical aid and by gifts of oil , sent out from Saudi and Kuwaiti ports , but marketed by Iraq . |
| 22 | Since its foundation Henley has been involved in developing management educators and trainers . |
| 23 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 24 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 25 | To this day , its trade mark has been the concentration on the body and its movements . |
| 26 | Finally , since the launch of the Trust 's own imprint , its trade distribution has been organised by Victor Gollancz . |
| 27 | Conservatives were concerned that an old lady can go and collect her pension without coming back to find her gas meter has been robbed , and that a mother can send her child round to a local shop without feat that the child will be molested . |
| 28 | Since their manufacturing plant has been closed down and the building converted into the Templeton Business Centre . |
| 29 | Now their pension money has been frozen while trustees investigate certain deals made using money from the fund . |
| 30 | The foster mothers and re-derived litter should be held in isolation until their health status has been shown to be satisfactory . |