Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll , cos Dennis want 's that erm , window locked up as well . |
| 2 | The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner ; those articles , for instance , with titles like ‘ On Rereading Stendhal ’ , which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated . |
| 3 | Another difference Walker found was that untried prisoners , who can be held for up to a year , are rarely allowed visits . |
| 4 | Why should Utopia have been such an all-pervading failure . |
| 5 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 6 | But what Spenser demonstrates is that uncontrolled phantasy lies close to the destructive savagery which lurks , similarly insubstantial and ‘ dispersed thin' without . |
| 7 | ‘ The earls of Warwick have been some of the most powerful men in English history . |
| 8 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 9 | A second point Velikovsky made was that evidence of such catastrophes could be deduced from ancient writings , oral legends and the like . |
| 10 | A friend of mine in Houston , who has followed the orchestra since the 1940s , explained why Eschenbach has been such a great success in Houston . |
| 11 | The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted . |
| 12 | The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner . |
| 13 | If Whizzo had been any good Jazz could have transferred but Biddy , having given Whizzo the thumbs down , had found him a good home with a nervous lady in the suburbs and he was no longer available . |
| 14 | Before the marriage Maggie had been little more than a drudge round the house . |
| 15 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
| 16 | A second glance at Grunte had been enough to arouse the Deputy 's suspicions . |
| 17 | Not only does this mean that science is handled by a senior member of the Canadian cabinet — a tax lawyer who once said that the last thing that Canada needs is more tax lawyers — but also it means that science and technology are seen as a part of the process of economic development . |
| 18 | Janet erm Mr want 's some practical suggestions I have one for goodness sake any show that 's suitable for children charge those children half price that way you 'll get . |
| 19 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 20 | Well there 's always , there 's always the next bit of garden , it is n't there when we , when we put the rubbish out , then Paddy says is that everything and I say well you know it 's not , you know that it 's going to blow up again as soon as you 've come inside , but do n't worry . |
| 21 | Harold Wilson taught is that , and I think that was very much an Englishman 's view that this is a lot of obfuscation . |
| 22 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 23 | ‘ If Dobson had been any more seriously injured you 'd have found yourself in a cell by now . ’ |
| 24 | The house in Mouncy Street had been such a place . |
| 25 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 26 | ‘ When he was very small Helen had been all that he was not ; wise , mature , equipped with skills and resources . |
| 27 | and all Julia wanted was more and more and more money , there was a conflict on how many gran children she could have and sometimes she had five in there , one of them which was then very small which she had to spend time feeding and that and that was Kerry |
| 28 | According to Lévy , ‘ The only galleries of modern and contemporary art in Geneva have been those of Daniel Varenne and Jan Krugier . |
| 29 | What Gordon found was that , given the context of a mutually supportive group-writing task , poor readers themselves were able to do the job of constructing the missing macrostructure of a text , and thus could overcome some of its difficulties . |
| 30 | The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems . |