Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The foundation of my collection has always been ideas which have a long life . |
| 2 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 3 | Items which discriminate best are ones which are passed by more of the higher scorers than the lower scorers ; the best discriminators of all are generally those items which are passed by about $0 per cent of the candidates overall . |
| 4 | N not as it is today , beautiful green grass and we used to play er cricket , football , marbles er pitch card , ring tor , er duckie stone , and all that of course the village in those days was divided into two parts and if you lived over 's Hill you was a downtowner . |
| 5 | All we can do now is help ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | All you can really do now is salvage what you can . |
| 7 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 8 | We can only play at ascribing responsibility outside this mutual interaction ; making the horse a senator , blaming the toy which the child trips over are games which do not fool the horse or the toy . |
| 9 | Shine On was upsides her now . |
| 10 | lot of the people who are complaining here are people who are complaining that their an assessment has been made which was very much lower than is necessary for bringing up children . |
| 11 | Rather than creative individuals being taken as the starting-point , the individuals targeted initially were people who had been diagnosed as having had a mental illness , either a severe ( manic-depressive ) form of affective disorder or the milder , but aetiologically related , mood swings of ‘ cyclothymia ’ . |
| 12 | No doubt the clients he entertained here were people who expected the best . |
| 13 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 14 | It was disturbing , in an invigorating sort of way , because it had always been Mandy who saw her beauty , no matter what . |
| 15 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 16 | They had once been commuters themselves but they had waited so long for trains they had taken to living permanently in the tunnels , skulking in the darkness by day and emerging late at night to devour unwary travellers . |
| 17 | It had also been Marcus who had phoned Connon with the news of Arthur 's visit to the police station . |
| 18 | If it had n't been dope it would have been valium : what 's the difference ? |
| 19 | I keep thinking today 's Thursday I do n't know why |
| 20 | What is required here are rules which courts can use to distinguish between legal and illegal armed conflicts , and between legal and illegal methods of conducting legal armed conflicts . |
| 21 | And last night lawyer Peter Edwards , who represents a third of the inmates , said : ‘ What we have here is nurses who are no better than thugs . ’ |