Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
2 | Meanwhile Atkinson laughed off any fears of a hostile reception at Hillsborough and said : ‘ The only extra protection I want is thermal underwear . |
3 | The last break I had was five months ago . |
4 | Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation . |
5 | The sort of scholarship which predominated was textual scholarship , as exemplified by Percy Simpson 's monumental edition of Ben Jonson . |
6 | Later in the programme we ask are positive discrimination and chauvinism thriving in the Labour Party ? |
7 | Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted . |
8 | As a result there have been real achievements : hundreds of thousands of workers have been trained to work in rural areas and attack fatal conditions like dehydration from diarrhoea ( still the main killer of young children worldwide ) with the simplest and cheapest remedies . |
9 | As a result there has been bitter criticism of the local authorities and much disappointment among the disabled and their families . |
10 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
11 | During this probationary term there have been two training Saturdays in South London and a residential weekend in Buckinghamshire . |
12 | Even in their heyday they had been fluid entities which could be dormant in specific areas for years at a time , but the decline at the turn of the century was much more widespread than earlier fluctuations . |
13 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
14 | During the winter there had been near-continual snow and rain , then in late March there was a week of mad blustering winds , with racing cloud and fitful sun . |
15 | During the session there had been some debate over the selection of the ministers of finance and foreign affairs . |
16 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
17 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
18 | There was something about old Eddy 's appearance which had been worrying Dyson subconsciously for some minutes , and he suddenly realized what it was . |
19 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
20 | This was the case with the small group who had been daily injectors of speed . |
21 | The only basis we have is mutual desire , ’ he grated out . |
22 | The acid we use is nitric acid . |
23 | I happen for my sins to have been shadow Chancellor since the last election in 1987 , during which period there have been three Chancellors of the Exchequer . |
24 | And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’ |
25 | Prior to the meeting there had been much speculation that Shamir would face a challenge at the meeting ; in the event even Sharon urged the party to unite behind Shamir . |
26 | None the less , since antiquity there have been many efforts to describe features of the world , including the social , in quantitative terms , efforts which began to assume an even greater urgency and consequentiality with the rise of the modern nation state and its requirements for an accurate accounting of its resources . |
27 | For some years after the War there had been severe power cuts in winter , when demand reached its peak , because of shortages of both power station capacity and coal to burn in the plant that was available . |
28 | In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes . |
29 | Since the Second World War there have been many changes in official policies toward , and social assumptions concerning , the control and treatment of crime and offenders . |
30 | In that-place there had been intricate gardens , where water wheels turned musically and water lilies bloomed moon-white , and giant goldfish floated under them . |