Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 2 | That I stress is a preliminary view they could not and would not wish to make a final decision until they have all the information . |
| 3 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 4 | There were one or two that were that I think were a little bit careless and did n't quite get the construction correct for them . |
| 5 | All that you require is a separate breeding tank , facilities to provide live foods of a small-enough size for the new fry , some high protein fry foods , various nets , egg disinfectants , and sundries . |
| 6 | Have you told Kath that you 've been a naughty girl ? |
| 7 | ‘ You could hang your torso , seeing that you have been a paramedic . ’ |
| 8 | If the bookie appears to be offering unfavourable odds , then a gambler will tend not to bet , whereas if the bookie appears to have made a mistake by offering , say , odds of five to one on a horse that you think is a sure thing , then you 'll place your money there . |
| 9 | That 's er , so you 've been a successful propagandist ? |
| 10 | We 've put those together , we 've looked at the staff that we need to administer that particular level of activity , and we 've come out with a figure that we think is a reasonable estimate , in fact I would go so far as saying , we think this is the lowest estimate that we can safely put forward , as to our needs for the coming year . |
| 11 | Now clearly that you know this is a the the model that we have is a daily one , it is a twelve hour model . |
| 12 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 13 | We have not yet succeeded in creating reliable reproduction of touch , taste or smell , although there have been a few experiments . |
| 14 | Although there have been a few gains , these have been outweighed by the losses . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it . |
| 16 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 17 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 18 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 19 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 20 | This sort of incident , and all the " in-jokes " we shared , perhaps not so funny to those outside the job , although trivial in themselves helped to keep up morale , and I think were a necessary part of the team spirit . |
| 21 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 22 | I have been very happy with you , and you have been a wonderful wife . |
| 23 | You can have a biscuit if you 've been a good boy . |
| 24 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
| 25 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 26 | If there 've been a whole series of articles articles about health or about food or something like that , no way are they going to do anything else on the subject , unless it 's , it 's brought in a very fierce readers ' letters column or something like that , in which case they may be open for another slant . |
| 27 | I was wrong , and they have been a dramatic success . |
| 28 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 29 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 30 | No one has ever refused to go up , but there have been a few that needed coaxing down ! ’ |