Example sentences of "[verb] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he 'll eat raw carrot and things like that but otherwise the only vegetables he 'll eat are potatoes he eats |
| 2 | Also included are summaries which discuss particular experiences from many areas of the voluntary sector . |
| 3 | Also included are episodes which show Rodrigo in a less than heroic light . |
| 4 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 5 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 6 | Ever since the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau there has been art whose aim has been the renewal of society , but it has had no effect beyond that of producing testimonials ( even if controversial ones ) of what we call the ‘ real ’ world , in contrast perhaps with the unreal world of art . |
| 7 | Britain 's premier clubs has been doings its own campaigning on a very different manifesto — and very successful it has been , too . |
| 8 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 9 | Those who forget the virtues of solidarity in order to protest against the downgrading of individual agency might recall that it has been intellectuals who have been most prone to inflate the significance of individuals — particularly intellectuals — to the same degree that their theories propose universal categories and claim universal effects . |
| 10 | Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised . |
| 11 | The letter from Mr. Roper in the March issue of the Record claims that in many authorities it has been staff themselves who have initiated the blacking of News International newspapers . |
| 12 | Well in the main lobbyist has been Ron who 's the who 's our elected campaigns officers and he 's quite literally been spending time treading the the hallowed halls of Westminster |
| 13 | James has been kindness itself all day . |
| 14 | There has been research which suggests that moderately strong automatic stemming can be applied in specialized online reference retrieval searching . |
| 15 | Even in the cases where what we want are things which exist in the ordinary way , these things are not to be identified with the mentioned objects . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's really what I wanted to be like — all the cosmetics mentioned were products I used growing up . ’ |
| 17 | Included were adults whose primary disabilities were physical and permanent and who needed daily assistance from carers or other professionals or non-professional helpers . |
| 18 | One of the men he approached was Spurgeon who gave him this characteristic response : ‘ I sit on my own gate , and whistle my own tunes , and am quite content . ’ |
| 19 | Guido released her and stepped away , and where there 'd been warmth there was suddenly coldness . |
| 20 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 21 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 22 | Highly rated were sisters who were approachable , oriented to nurse learners , and who gave explicit directions about nursing care . |
| 23 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
| 24 | ‘ I wanted to find out why Maman had kept the past such a big secret , but all I seem to have done is spook everyone — even you , ’ she said wryly . |
| 25 | Ail they 've done is sign his death warrant for him . ‘ |
| 26 | All I 've done is dent your holier-than-thou force-field a little bit . |
| 27 | All I 've done is guide you . ’ |
| 28 | What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell . |
| 29 | He had to thresh with his arms to get himself upright again and , it seemed to Marie , all he had done was drive himself even further down into the mud . |
| 30 | All it had done was grant her professional membership ‘ on the same basis as everybody else — i.e. , specifically on her qualifications and experience as a chemist ’ ! |