Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 2 | A cyclist who 's been in prison in Nepal for over a month could be freed later this week . |
| 3 | In Cairo , Stirling had recruited Bob Melot , a Belgian who had been in business in Egypt before the war . |
| 4 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 5 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 6 | Paul is happy enough , but he has a dream which has been with him since he was a teenager . |
| 7 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 8 | In this way , specific dates can be given to a sequence of finds as more information becomes available : if , for example , a cemetery which had been in use for several decades is excavated , the finds from each grave are studied as individual groups to be fitted into an overall sequence . |
| 9 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 10 | However , if you train with a coach who 's been under pressure conditions , it can make a difference in your own performance . ’ |
| 11 | He gives terrible parties up there — I know a girl who 's been to them . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 13 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 14 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 15 | Comments from a teacher who had been at the school for two years added credence to the points raised in the above dialogues stating that there is ‘ racism ’ amongst staff within the school : |
| 16 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 17 | President Abdou Diouf announced on April 7 that he was appointing the president ( Speaker ) of the National Assembly , Habib Thiam , as Prime Minister , a post which had been in abeyance since 1983 , shortly after Thiam 's removal from it [ see p. 32180 ] . |
| 18 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 19 | In one study , body weight as well as general development progressed more in a group of premature babies living in a hospital nursery which imposed light/dark and noise/quiet rhythms than in a group who had been in a ward with less emphasis on the differences between night and day . |
| 20 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 21 | ‘ How has a body which has been in the ground remained so fresh ? ’ |
| 22 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 23 | Essentially this document brings a process which has been in operation since 1980 into line with the accreditation agreement with the Council . |
| 24 | UPH 's shareholders may wonder why Desmond spent £4.4m of their money on a site which had been on offer for £2.7m . |
| 25 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 26 | He let his house in Chelsea furnished for the year , with the usual proviso that his own staff should remain to run it — he has a housekeeper who has been with him for years , and one daily maid . |
| 27 | This is a distinction which has been at the heart of a good deal of post-war curricular reform in the schools both in the USA and the UK ( see , for example , Bruner 1960 ) , and which will be explored further in due course . |
| 28 | As in all things , you have a team which has been with you for many years ? |
| 29 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 30 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |