Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The professional takes control , makes all of the decisions , selects the information he or she thinks is relevant to the parents , and elicits only certain information that the professional feels is important . |
| 6 | A woman loses some jewellery she thinks is real . |
| 7 | She 's doing what she thinks is right . |
| 8 | Must be Gary 's son she thinks is okay . |
| 9 | My life since I came to you has been miserable , uncomfortable and full of pain . |
| 10 | ‘ I know she has been friendly with you — perhaps spoken freely to you . |
| 11 | She has been honest with herself and the lesson is clear . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 13 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 14 | ‘ She has been marvellous for Constance . |
| 15 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 16 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 17 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 18 | Working with the Church and the community , she has been involved in reconciliation work aiming to address the trauma of conflict and poverty . |
| 19 | She has been involved with assisting at church services which were relevant to issues of world poverty . |
| 20 | She has been involved with minors and this is completely horrendous . |
| 21 | She has been involved in three new workout videos entitled The Shape Series , which she presents . |
| 22 | She has been involved with promoting freedom of information in local government . |
| 23 | He knows she has been married since graduating but does n't know her present surname or whereabouts . |
| 24 | Having invented the phrase ‘ Sea Use Planning ’ she has been delighted to note the emergence of departments of Sea Use Planning at some ( not U. K. ! ) universities . |
| 25 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 26 | And it is not the first time she has been successful . |
| 27 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |
| 28 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's true she has been unkind to you , because she dislikes your faults , as Miss Scatcherd dislikes mine . |
| 30 | And Helen replies , she has been unkind to you , no doubt because , you see , she dislikes your cast of character as Miss Scatcherd does mine . |