Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this is , this is sad I am and how worried I 've been this has been round my neck ! |
| 2 | a lot about it and sha n't be , frankly I 'm relieved I do n't actually know a lot but when the meeting to discuss what we 're supposed to do is on December tenth yo so I 'm a bit torn cos I in a way that 's what I ought to be doing even though the welfare business in a way that 's wh that 's what I ought to be doing cos it 's entirely . |
| 3 | From the G M B point of view , of course , we have quite a sporting section and we 're proud to have this link er , with both of the organizations and we 're pleased to have been of some assistance to the er , British Boxers ' Asso Professional Boxers ' Association er , in er , this launch and establishment we felt , because we 've got the Scottish professional footballers , who are well established and er , are very much an integral part of the G M B and we 've got the Northern Ireland er , footballers , we 've got the rugby players and we 've got speedway riders all of which come under . |
| 4 | Not many children are likely to have been to a circus ; but although they 're not as glamorous or as attractive as they once were , they still hold a fascination for children . |
| 5 | So all of those people there or most of them are likely to have been on a list that the school have recommended . |
| 6 | However , the marriage negotiations are likely to have been after 1027 . |
| 7 | I have been lucky to have been on plenty of tours and hardly missed a training session or match so , by the law of averages , I ca n't complain about that disappointing end to what had been a very enjoyable season . |
| 8 | ‘ One of our pilots , Bill Topper , who I am glad to see is with us today , took part in this raid tells how he was able to listen to the crew of a Lancaster chatting away on their intercom as the RT transmit button was down , I understand their conversation not only included details of their local pub , but the name of the target ahead . |
| 9 | The respondents may therefore recover whatever sum they may be able to prove was in excess of such a charge as would have avoided undue discrimination against them . |
| 10 | I did point out that you were supposed to have been in another place at the time … ’ |
| 11 | I think at any particular moment in the day we found that half or more of the unemployed people that we were able to interview were at home at that point in the day erm which is much , much more spent indoors and |
| 12 | It would have been nice to have been in the presentation room when the John Smith 's brand manager was told the script of their ads . |
| 13 | As we saw in section 2.5 , the sectoral spatial division of labour was already beginning to break down in the UK during the post-war years when Fordism is supposed to have been at its height . |
| 14 | But in 1483 Richard of Gloucester , later Richard III , is supposed to have been in residence when he first heard news of the murder of the princes in the Tower . |
| 15 | A common situation where such an obligation of confidence is likely to arise is in subcontracting arrangements where the prime contractor supplies detailed information relating to the products which are to be built to his subcontractor . |
| 16 | Therefore , the date of the Gospel is likely to have been in the decade 60–70 AD . |
| 17 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 18 | By late March 1019 he is likely to have been in Winchester : S 956 was granted in the royal presence to the New Minster during the first week of Easter , and has a long witness list which no doubt represents the gathering of the Easter court . |
| 19 | All the fish that the average person is likely to have are of the carp family and have similar requirements for their successful reproduction , although certain species , such as orfe and tench , seem loath to breed in captivity in Britain . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 21 | Whatever serious business was discussed by the two Emperors remains unrecorded , but it is unlikely to have been of much substance , for Napoleon III found that his host was constrained by the new constitutional structure which had emerged after the defeat of 1866 . |
| 22 | Many of the resorts Citalia is pleased to offer are within an easy day 's outing of some of Italy 's great cities and their host of cultural achievements and attractions . |
| 23 | The question of what is significant has been at the heart of much recent discussion , but is not addressed in the ASB 's proposals . |
| 24 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 25 | The inquiry at Linlithgow Sheriff Court heard that the pensioner was supposed to have been under supervision when the second fall happened . |
| 26 | He 'd completely forgotten he was supposed to have been to the library . |
| 27 | He was unfortunate to have been in office when George III 's association with the Earl of Bute brought unpopularity to his whole family . |
| 28 | He was unlucky to have been in the University team only during his last year , when he easily gained a place . |
| 29 | With due respect to these performers , Solomon 's achievement in those Beethoven sonatas which was able to record is in a different league . |
| 30 | And , given its tradition , one of the problems to which this effort was first directed was toward the understanding of voting behaviour and the prediction of election results . |