Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these are given to us as actual temptations , there is no less of temptation in the resounding sentence that is the last but one of the portrait . |
| 2 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 3 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 4 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 5 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 6 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 7 | Blame had n't been fastened on anyone except some unknown nutter back in the wilds of Ontario . |
| 8 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 9 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 10 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 11 | And he 's gon they are overspending by something like one point one million . |
| 12 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 13 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 14 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 15 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 16 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 17 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 18 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 19 | Under the new law , the only valid excuse for excluding children is that 80% of the flats in a development are occupied by someone aged 55 or more . |
| 20 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 21 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 22 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 24 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 25 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 26 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 27 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 28 | In many cases some of the work has been done for you by previous scholars ; so , for example there is a book called Allusions in Ulysses ( which lists allusions made in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ) . |
| 29 | The Agnus is naturally the culminating variation ; in ‘ Misericorde ’ the four parts are expanded for it to six . |
| 30 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |