Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect she 's been bored lately . ’ |
| 2 | They say she 's been able to transplant a gorilla 's brain into a human body , or maybe a human brain into a gorilla 's body . ’ |
| 3 | Touche Ross , the receivers for Scarborough 's troubled Royal Hotel , say there has been keen interest from potential buyers and negotiations should start soon . |
| 4 | ‘ Now they say there has been secret dumping of waste from the submarines and nuclear icebreakers . |
| 5 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 6 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 7 | It has been our purpose here to indicate what has been successful in the past , and the strong technical basis which underpins success . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 10 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 11 | He says there 's been proper consultation with the local communities and the local authorities including the parish councils . |
| 12 | In the half century since the " Big Book " was written there has been continuing effort to reduce the number of people who fail to find recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 13 | because I 've noticed he 's been sleepy he 's all blocked up all all over there . |
| 14 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 15 | One resident says he has been unable to get out of his back garden after a lorry backed into the wall and buckled the gate . |
| 16 | Another says he has been unable to open his garage door for days after a skip filled with bricks was dumped outside . |
| 17 | I 've got to go listen it 's been lovely t talk to talk talking to you if you could pop in with a bottle of I wanted to try the new Beaujo If anybody 's got it and they come over , just ring the ring the door bell . |
| 18 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 19 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 20 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 21 | The company says it has been able to generate high levels of repeat income from long term contracts in the financial services area and is keen to collaborate with other suppliers to expand its service and product range . |
| 22 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 23 | Labour MP Terry Lewis , who sponsored the Bill , says it 's been successful in New South Wales , Australia , where alcohol related accidents have dropped by a third . |
| 24 | Severn Trent says it 's been aware of the problem , but the money was never available to carry out the upgrading . |
| 25 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 26 | ‘ How long do you think she 's been dead ? ’ |
| 27 | on their own back , she did n't ask for it and June ai n't worked since Christmas , so er , I says I know what it 's like with my sister and I mean she 's been right in it ai n't she ? |
| 28 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 29 | Will the Minister now tell the House how many local magistrates courts he estimates are likely to close as a result of the Government 's new funding policy ? |
| 30 | English , like most languages , will generally use whatever means are necessary to reduce ambiguity in tracing participants . |