Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been a keen walker and rock climber for many years and has climbed in the Alps , Pyrenees and Dolomites . |
| 2 | As 105 puts it : It is hard to miss the wit in such poems , or in the earlier profession of incompetence : It would be a dull-witted reader who interpreted such poems literally , or who took au pied de la lettre such conventional statements of bondage as this : Self-depreciation ( sometimes called ‘ the modesty topos ’ has been a rhetorical device since the beginnings of literature and continues in full flourish today . |
| 3 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 4 | This last year all these outgoings have meant that fundraising has been a real necessity and to try to relieve that pressure , the committee have decided to raise the subs . |
| 5 | Not being covered by state-run health insurance has been a major worry because ‘ sometimes I get very sick and I ca n't find the money to go to the doctor , ’ says Rita . |
| 6 | This may not be obvious if there has been a major problem and a solution has evaded many attempts to reach it . |
| 7 | From time to time Earth suffers bombardment from meteors and comets , and meteoritic impact has been a major planet-shaper and climate-modeller . |
| 8 | In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun . |
| 9 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 10 | Ladbrokes spokesman Rob Hartnett said : ‘ It is the widest open Champion Hurdle in living memory , but Granville Again has been a warm order since Scu climbed aboard . ’ |
| 11 | For North it has been a disappointing season and Saturday 's 57-run defeat summed up their form this year . |
| 12 | ‘ It has been a phenomenal response and shows that there are people in need of these jobs . ’ |
| 13 | Since 1815 Switzerland has been a neutral country and at peace with everyone . |
| 14 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
| 15 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 16 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 17 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |
| 18 | I hope the Lord will forgive me but this has been a great experience and you would n't know Mabel , she is brown in the sun here , it is very nice , but I do n't like the dust . |
| 19 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 20 | With a trading profit for C&P last year of £473 million on sales of £4.2 billion [ 9 per cent up on 1986 ] , there can now be no doubt that the move has been a great success and that the thinking behind it was sound . |
| 21 | Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season , I ca n't fault it . |
| 22 | Finally , to the one person who throughout my life has been a great friend and now my husband , . |
| 23 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 24 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 25 | There has been a strong hint that this will be the last competitive Masters for Arnold Palmer , 63 , and it could be the last time we see the jaunty 90-year-old Gene Sarazen , and Sam Snead , 80 in May , lead off the event with a ceremonial nine holes . |
| 26 | The loss of striker Andy Saville for the season with a broken arm has been a tremendous blow and manager Alan Murray is making inquiries to replace him . |
| 27 | Bradley has been a lifelong Democrat and it shows . |
| 28 | Mick , 44 , said : ‘ It has been a desperate battle and now it will get worse . |
| 29 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 30 | He underwent three operations on the long haul back to fitness and has been a helpless onlooker as Leeds floundered in their title defence . |