Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 2 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 3 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 4 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 5 | Further complications have to be added ; for instance , various parts of a herb have different effects because the times of the year for collection affect the content of the herb ; the quantity used is also of major importance , and there are at least 700 medicinal herbs used by European races . |
| 6 | A certain narrow-mindedness has pervaded studies of electronic information as the focus has been predominately by national archives on the preservation of records about the national governments themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 8 | The place to start is clearly with Froggy 's sister . |
| 9 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 10 | However , it must be recognised that the level of service provided is substantially above that provided by other local authority mental health services . ’ |
| 11 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 12 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 13 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 14 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 15 | Since the example taken was entirely at random and 292 is a statistically significant proportion of the total number of libraries , it may be possible to make a hypothesis on the basis of this graph . |
| 16 | What timber remains is probably of 18th century origin when the building was converted into a work-shop and dwelling house for a wheelwright . |
| 17 | ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated . |
| 18 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 19 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 20 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 21 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 22 | The amount of polluting matter discharged is also of considerable significance , but how significant depends on the capacity of the receiving watercourse . |
| 23 | Employers who claim they can stand aside from com from com from competitive pressure to undercut are truly on one . |
| 24 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 25 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 26 | In come the Estonians , ’ Harold Macmillan is said to have remarked after one of Margaret Thatcher 's early cabinet reshuffles , and the men to whom the Prime Minister turned were certainly outside this small genetic pool . |
| 27 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 28 | Approaches to hydrological model building have been either via physical hydrology , which is the investigation of the components of the hydrological cycle to achieve a full understanding of the mechanisms and interactions involved , or by systems synthesis investigations , which attempted a complete simulation of drainage basin operation by adjusting the components and the parameters of the model until outputs from the model agreed with empirical results from known inputs . |
| 29 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 30 | But the year since Robert Maxwell 's death has been far from comfortable . |