Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that her private world had been little more than an experiment in frenzy , and that a breakdown had been inevitable . |
| 2 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 3 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 4 | His own feeling had been that Dizzy Liston looked like some amiable , well-heeled scarecrow . |
| 5 | Our basic approach has been that corporate reports should seek to satisfy , as far as possible , the information needs of users : they should be useful . ’ |
| 6 | They do when they came in , and they want the stall made like this , and they would say , you know , well you know , I 'm paying you to finish that off , you know , how , your next , your next priority to do is this , and they eventually told me what they wanted , and you know , you get on with it . |