Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 2 | I see you 've been to the hospital , or something like that . |
| 3 | ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given . |
| 4 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 5 | The instructions provide a generative programme , the folding and unfolding are like the contractions and changes in contact in cell sheets in the embryo . |
| 6 | Nearly half of those registered are in the jobs market for the first time . |
| 7 | The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide . |
| 8 | Because the calories consumed are in the form of particularly bulky , filling and satisfying food your appetite will not be sharpened nor your willpower lowered by actual physical hunger . |
| 9 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 10 | The amounts given are for a tank : |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , ’ Gaily said , ‘ that all the clothes either of us has are in the bag or on our backs . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He has been worth every penny we have spent and every tear we have shed . |
| 13 | No wonder Souness has been into the transfer market for a new centre back . |
| 14 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 15 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 16 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 17 | This week has been about the library . |
| 18 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 19 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |
| 20 | One of the major divisions has been between the Japanese and the Europeans . |
| 21 | World spatial systems afford an enormous scope for review but perhaps the dominant trend has been towards the differentiation of the earth 's surface on a more realist dynamic basis to replace a more static arid functional treatment that had been current previously . |
| 22 | The trend through evolution , however , has been towards an increase in size and complexity . |
| 23 | I 'm very hopeful because er , Vietnam since nineteen eighty six has been under a process of economic and political reform , and they have released er a large amount of prisoners over this time , and there are still a number of prisoners , such as poets er religious people that are still in prison , who are hoping that , with their renewed effort and attention from the media , this 'll er be changed . |
| 24 | He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’ |
| 25 | Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure |
| 26 | The South African government has been under no obligation to submit reports to the ILO . |
| 27 | One of the country 's tallest trees has been under the doctor . |
| 28 | Another fundamental misunderstanding of Freud 's theory , made again by both those sympathetic and those hostile to his work , has been over the part played by abnormal psychology in the theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 29 | The real conflict has been over the development of industrial land for retail purposes . |
| 30 | The greatest controversy has been over the question of assessment and testing . |