Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he lives on is his personal pension . |
| 2 | BA 's strength has long been its profitable routes across the North Atlantic . |
| 3 | Our entrepreneurial drive has long been our distinguishing trait . |
| 4 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 5 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 6 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 7 | Unionists are also taken aback but Fermanagh-South Tyrone MP Ken Maginnis said : ‘ It has not been my personal experience that the RUC Special Branch gambles with the lives of potential IRA victims . |
| 8 | You might feel a spontaneous urge to buy a particular present for a loved one and then find it has always been their secret wish . |
| 9 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 10 | Dylan 's voice has always been his greatest asset , carrying a huge range of emotions . |
| 11 | He was not an intellectual ; he made constant use of anecdotal evidence and some of his views bordered on the banal , but one of his great strengths has always been his resolute attachment to a few simple conservative themes . |
| 12 | ‘ This has always been my favourite room , ’ says Mary Jane , ‘ and it 's turned out to be a perfect playroom for Emily and her friends . |
| 13 | John Lennon has always been my main man . |
| 14 | Adelaide and I were never blessed with children , but it has always been my dearest wish to have a family . ’ |
| 15 | It can also be argued that the economists ' justification for aid has never been its real rationale , but that political considerations of strategic security by the donors have conditioned its distribution and nature , in some cases even allowing military support to be classified as aid . |
| 16 | This , however , has never been our central concern . |
| 17 | MICHAEL Parkinson has never been my favourite TV presenter — I 've always found his brusque , man-of-the-people style somewhat contrived . |
| 18 | This has never been my own position . |
| 19 | As a director of the Bank of England , Laing , who confesses that finance has never been his strong point , broadens his horizons on the economic front . |
| 20 | Yeah , we were having tea and mum says where 's my little son ? |
| 21 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 22 | No wonder she 's always been my favourite cousin . |
| 23 | What comes across is his deep determination to do himself justice and an abiding love of the game . |
| 24 | Egalitarianism 's never been my strong suit , but I overcame my natural snobbery and banged on the door . |