Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs . |
| 2 | MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs . |
| 3 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 4 | We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England , and my husband has been in nearly every country of the world on business . |
| 5 | ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense . |
| 6 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 7 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 8 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 9 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 10 | My training has been as a scientist , and I still ask questions which begin ‘ Why ? ’ ( as well as others beginning ‘ How ? ’ and ‘ What if ? ’ . |
| 11 | Er , my client has been in business at the u his own firm supplying computer software in a specialized market , that is stock control systems for clubs , pubs and restaurants . |
| 12 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 13 | As far as I 'm aware my solicitor has been in contact with Burnley prosecution to have the case transferred to Birmingham Crown Court . |
| 14 | As far as I 'm aware my solicitor has been in contact with prosecution to have the case transferred to Birmingham Crown Court . |
| 15 | Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches . |
| 16 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 17 | No wonder that the answer to the puzzle was AN EXCLUSIVE SCOOP and that is just what her entry has been for Ann Scudder of Dartford , Kent as she is the one to scoop up this fabulous prize . |
| 18 | While psychoanalysis itself is very expensive , time-consuming , not available on the National Health Service , and therefore practised on only a small number of people , its influence has been by no means confined to those directly benefiting from treatment . |
| 19 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 20 | Their head has been in t touch with the bed , their heels , but the whole body 's been arched like a bow with the contraction of these muscles . |
| 21 | One of the main tasks of the SCAWD and its Secretary has been as an educational resource for conferences , congregations and local church groups , working mainly on international justice and peace issues and solidarity concerns . |
| 22 | OR longer than most Poles can bear to remember , their country has been in crisis . |
| 23 | Glycosylated haemoglobin is also a product of a nonenzymatic post-translational reaction , and its measurement has been of use in patients with diabetes mellitus as an indicator of the degree of hyperglycaemia during the preceding 8 weeks . |
| 24 | Mr Toghill has a degree in English Literature , and his career has been in PR and marketing , and latterly in careers work and the promotion of membership for the AAT . |
| 25 | His career has been in international brand companies — Procter & Gamble , The Rank Organisation and Revlon International . |
| 26 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |
| 27 | Richard Lamb , managing director of SMP Playgrounds , is an expert when it comes to designing playgrounds and his company has been in the business for over 30 years . |
| 28 | His mother has been with Douglas Reyburn for twenty years , now working as a spinner in the mid-flat . |
| 29 | His house has been on the market for six months . |
| 30 | If your apprenticeship has been in the district where you intend to farm , so much the better , for you will have experience of local conditions and friends to help you look sensibly at whatever offers . |