Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the other mills powered by the Painswick Stream , there is no evidence to suggest that it has ever been anything but a corn mill , virtually all the others having been in the woollen cloth trade at some time . |
| 2 | The front row of a scrummage has always been something of a mystery to most rugby spectators , referees and even players . |
| 3 | The label ‘ social science ’ has always been something of a misnomer , because in addition to the obviously collective perspectives of economics , sociology , anthropology and politics , it also includes a concern with the individual , in particular in some branches of psychology . |
| 4 | But research at Larksoken has always been somewhat of an anomaly . |
| 5 | To be fair , there has also been something of a shift in the male mindset . |
| 6 | Equipment is conventional , though well maintained , and there has even been something of a move to re-introduce old-fashioned reconditioned items ( e.g. vacuum cleaners ) . |
| 7 | Mr Gros said : ‘ No one has died in an avalanche here for 10 years and there has never been one at that spot before . |
| 8 | They are used to all sorts of emergencies , but there has never been anything like this : their own people , prepared to face appalling hardships , possible arrest or even death to get out , arriving exhausted but so happy to be free . |
| 9 | There has never been anything like it at Cheltenham . |
| 10 | If by our standards their lot was a hard one , what they suffered inside was nothing to what they would have had to endure outside from a still brutalised populace . |
| 11 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
| 12 | He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well . |
| 13 | ‘ You did n't ask , you did n't want to be told until Florian convinced you that there 'd never been anything between us . |
| 14 | In fact erm , what we agreed yesterday was one on this paper , two and three followed from it , erm , but were not actually moved , at the working party , because it was me who did the moving . |
| 15 | We had been told there was none on our route . |
| 16 | I should have thought there are plenty of women who just want sex for the sake of it , who see a bloke and think , whoah , would n't mind him , ’ says a single 29-year-old engineer . |
| 17 | If she is ever going to learn to stand on her own feet finally , when her grieving is over , she will need your acceptance , for the time being , that what she is experiencing now is something like the intense suffering of a child separated from the security of its mother 's presence , with all the feelings of fear and panic that brings . |
| 18 | did a big wash the other day so they 're all ready wo wo n't be long and the clothes she 's wearing now are nought to three months . |
| 19 | Well I think it is They ought to last a fair time they I mean it 's not gon na be abused really is it at those windows ? |
| 20 | The existing system for doing so is there to be used , alternative systems are not . |
| 21 | ‘ The pain you feel now is nothing to what the others will do . |
| 22 | If the Prince and Princess of Wales do decide to divorce there is nothing in law that says Charles can not still become king . |
| 23 | The service we have given here is one without individual confession . |
| 24 | Now when you were doing over here , you did a B times A is B A. Okay so it 's gon na be B A , all you 've got to decide now is it plus B A or minus B A , so you can put your B A down while you 're thinking about it . |
| 25 | And I grew up respectful of the strength of her inner soul , superior in my school learning but knowing here was something beyond knowledge . |
| 26 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 27 | liability , but if you 're getting beyond that , you 've got to think well is it worth me spending money to actually erm er get the mortgage fixed ? |
| 28 | To say I was taken aback is somewhat of an understatement . |
| 29 | There 've always been plenty of kindly brother officers to bring it to my attention . |
| 30 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |