Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr David Cummings , general manager , said : ‘ We have never done anything on this scale , but everyone has been fantastic and our suppliers have stood by us . ’ |
| 2 | A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics . |
| 3 | Everyone has been nice to me . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone has been superlative . |
| 5 | And , with Norway roaring away at the top of England 's World Cup group , everyone has been able to see their quality . |
| 6 | I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society . |
| 7 | Ernestine — everyone has been concerned about you . ’ |
| 8 | Everyone has been excellent during this nightmare . ’ |
| 9 | And so though we have all sinned and that circle , that perfect purpose of God for you and for me has been warped and distorted out of all recognition , the potential that God had for you and for me , it 's been dis it seems to have been destroyed because of the warping and because of the impact of sin . |
| 10 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 11 | Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding . |
| 12 | It will be necessary to confirm that all restrictions have been observed and if they have not been observed , to confirm that consent to vary or discharge them has been forthcoming . |
| 13 | Inevitably we have silly problems , but so far nothing has been insurmountable . |
| 14 | It is not only the length of time that someone has been unemployed that is important , but also the fact that it affects a person 's lifetime income . |
| 15 | Whenever someone has been ill in hospital and has recovered sufficiently to go home , usually the first question asked is ‘ Have you got a family ? ’ . |
| 16 | Can you imagine what it feels like when someone has been infertile and you 've helped them to have a baby ? |
| 17 | ‘ If I 'm crying because someone 's been nasty to me , he 'll want to rush away and knock their block off ’ , said one woman , ‘ for anything else he 'll just sit there and look miserable and uncomfortable until I feel I 'm supposed to comfort him ’ . |
| 18 | The children come home with news — someone 's been sick , and so on — that you probably would n't hear about otherwise . |
| 19 | ‘ Someone 's been hard at work , I see . ’ |
| 20 | But Mr Yeltsin himself has been unable to give the miners public support because their strike threatens Russia 's stubborn attempts to plough its lonely furrow of economic reform . |
| 21 | Nobody has been able to identify the houses , partly because they are of a very common design that appears all over London . |
| 22 | Nobody has been able to substantiate that idea and Kitching ( 1977 ) cites instances in Spain and Scotland of enclaves with elongated shells feeding on mussels . |
| 23 | Since then nobody has been able to get in touch with her . |
| 24 | The success of The Hitman And Her has been extraordinary . |
| 25 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 26 | Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene . |
| 27 | It must be the influence of Jekyll and Hyde , which has been strong since John Barrymore grew long teeth and took to scuttling about dark expressionist streets , bashing and killing . |
| 28 | This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century . |
| 29 | As noted , eurobond firms are seeking to reform issuance procedures in a bid to reduce the current pressures on profitability , one underlying cause of which has been excess capacity . |
| 30 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |