Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers , always prominent in Tutorial Classes in the twenties , are given a separate category here to avoid problems of distortion in the percentages of the non-manual category . |
| 2 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 3 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 4 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 5 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 6 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 7 | And medical conditions are becoming a serious problem too — people having heart attacks , asthmatic or epileptic attacks , or diabetic crises . |
| 8 | Some of the great names in British rock music are staging a one-off concert tomorrow in aid of Leukaemia research . |
| 9 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 10 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 12 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 13 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 14 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 15 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 16 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 17 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 18 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 19 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 20 | We 're building a new town there . ’ |
| 21 | You 're singing a different tune now from the one you sang after you 'd left her behind and got yourself arrested . |
| 22 | They 're opening a new lot now at the top of the road there . |
| 23 | Well when you 're driving along you 're looking a long way ahead that 's why and anything that comes in the road you see it Oh I hope whoever was involved in that accident tonight was alright . |
| 24 | They 're doin' a good job all round . |
| 25 | Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed |
| 26 | They 're having a mini break instead . |
| 27 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 28 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 29 | ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country . |
| 30 | This contrived notion of a rock'n'roll band touring around — we 're doing all that shit and we 're having a great time too . |