Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 2 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 3 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 4 | ‘ If only there had been a little bit more flexibility on the United States side I think it could have been successfully accomplished . ’ |
| 5 | But before he did so there had been a fractional hesitation . |
| 6 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 7 | Over the past ten years or so there has been a great deal of innovative thinking and impressive empirical investigation in our field and the theory 1 have been reviewing has played its part . |
| 8 | He was aware that Sidacai 's death at this point would be considered a waste , and so it had been a calculated risk to demonstrate readiness to accept a challenge . |
| 9 | ‘ We have lost four games recently that we never deserved to lose so it 's been a hard time for us . |
| 10 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 11 | Nevertheless she had been a good , kind sister and looked after him very well . |
| 12 | Thus there has been a net gain in jobs from the small-firm sector , in the USA at least . |
| 13 | Before 1970 , my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang singularity . |
| 14 | Nevertheless there has been a slow but perceptible change in the basis of such control , which is no longer in the hands of particular landowning families and individuals as such , but part of the duties of the office to which they have been elected . |
| 15 | It is this phase where there are many failures because the size of task being addressed is large ; normally there has been a formal specification of the work to be done , and the technologist has not the experience nor the qualifications to carry the work through . |
| 16 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 17 | But lately he 's been a real pain in the neck . |
| 18 | Since the third century B.C. there had been a Latin Hellenism , never identical with the Greek , but never separable from it . |
| 19 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 20 | Romania 's Interior Minister said yesterday there had been a counter-revolutionary plot by pro-Ceausescu forces but the situation was now stable despite sporadic shooting in the capital and other towns . |
| 21 | nationally it has been a stimulating time . |
| 22 | I knew later I had been a damn fool but … |
| 23 | In the pocket also there had been a clean handkerchief with a small card caught between its folds . |
| 24 | Secretary David Ryder said : ‘ We would be sorry to leave Acklam Park , because traditionally it 's been a well-supported venue in the Northern part of the county . ’ |
| 25 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |
| 26 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 27 | THE first day of Yorkshire 's only County Championship match of the season at Middlesbrough was washed out yesterday but not before there had been a major surprise at rain-soaked Acklam Park . |
| 28 | So far there 's been a poor response to their appeals for information , and they still have n't established a motive for the killing . |
| 29 | Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time . |
| 30 | And erm oh for many years now there 's been a great interest in consistency in sentencing . |