Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 2 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 3 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 4 | ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’ |
| 5 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 6 | The A423 is one of the busiest roads in the region and there 've been many accidents . |
| 7 | He assumed the visit must be one of Isobel 's whims , and there had been many of those . |
| 8 | Vlaçek had been a prize , and he had been loyal : all attempts to woo him away from de Chavigny — and there had been many — had failed . |
| 9 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 10 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 11 | Ironically , it was a track which Lauda had always opposed on safety grounds and there had been much discussion about the Ring 's lack of safeguards and medical access ( the track is so long , – kilometres , that marshals and safety equipment were not only widely scattered but often whole stretches of the track , such as that where Niki 's car went off , could not be seen from any marshal 's post ) . |
| 12 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 13 | And there had been that brief time in the Wolfwood — I wo n't remember it ! thought Fenella , but she did remember it . |
| 14 | And there had been that other message … she had rung Cartier to speak to someone called Michael Watney , only to be told that there was no-one called Michael Watney working there , and did she mean Michael Courteny , and if so , would she hold on ? |
| 15 | Most of the inhabitants had probably escaped into the night , and there had been little killing , although a number of women undoubtedly had been caught and forced to pay the price of conquest . |
| 16 | Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years . |
| 17 | He was the product of an actual family experience ; his father had fought for the South in the Civil War and there had been some decline from gentility , but he was as much a product of family myth . |
| 18 | The invasion threats , which had seemed so immediate in 1948–49 , had subsided and there had been fewer incidents on the parallel . |
| 19 | Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened . |
| 20 | Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations . |
| 21 | The spot was clearly a favourite one with the crew and there had been several men dozing there when Owen and Mahmoud had appeared . |
| 22 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |
| 23 | Attempts to change the system — and there have been many — have always foundered on an unwillingness to abandon the gold standard of British education . |
| 24 | There were many then and there have been many since who believed the Rosenbergs were victims of an FBI frame-up but the American people were baying for scapegoats , not least for the grave reverses in Korea . |
| 25 | This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems . |
| 26 | In the modern world , democracy has often been perceived by liberals as a threat or potential threat to individual freedom , and there have been many warnings about the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of public opinion . |
| 27 | There is also a large and venerable literature on the nature and purposes of higher education , which rings with names such as Newman , Veblen , Ortega y Gasset , and Jaspers [ see Powell 's bibliography ( 1966 , 1971 ) , and there have been many more recent examples but such writing likewise tends to be rather general , and only by extension addresses the question of what is to be taught in curricular terms ; but see Goodlad 1976 ; Barnett 1985 ] . |
| 28 | The European Court has powers of judicial review over Commission decisions , and there have been many appeals to the Court against the decisions of DGIV . |
| 29 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 30 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |