Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 2 | And the words we use are a small part of the process . |
| 3 | Among the steps they perform are the traditional ‘ hauling up the anchor , paying out the rope , hoisting the flag , going on lookout after climbing the rigging ’ and , of course , ‘ taking the salute ’ — a little haphazardly . |
| 4 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 5 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 6 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 7 | There may have been one or two planning applications which have been a little bit difficult to deal with but that 's life surely . |
| 8 | For years we have been a low productivity low-wage plant and we have ended up losing our jobs and all the new investment opportunities . |
| 9 | Over the years there have been a great number of electronic games concocted for the hobbyist , including one or two cricket games . |
| 10 | Not necessarily , because in our experiments we experimenters , devise ; however , we have no way of telling whether the scales we use are the same as those the animals themselves use in making their memories . |
| 11 | ‘ The sounds I program are the natural Stick sounds with synthesised coloration for atmospherics . |
| 12 | Teachers believe that their interaction with pupils and the disciplinary problems which arise are the greatest source of stress in their work . |
| 13 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 14 | Our our figures we maintain are the correct ones . |
| 15 | The main problems they pose are the excessive patronage they confer on the politicians and officials who establish them and make appointments to them , ‘ their frustration of the implementation of public policies , their financial irresponsibility and their erosion of democratic accountability and control ’ ( Jones , 1982a , p. 924 ) . |
| 16 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 17 | The only financial bonus for the dangers they face is an environmental allowance of £1.14p a day . |
| 18 | When she come up with them photos I suppose was the last time were n't it ? |
| 19 | During the last nine years , it has been richer pensioners who have been the main beneficiaries of the real increase in the value of pensions . |
| 20 | What this is Mr Mayor an attempt by the Conservatives to create ghettos , to create ghettos for the unemployed and the low paid and the forthcoming victims of your leader 's welfare schemes I think is the likely likelihood of this . |
| 21 | He was referring to that curious mixture of kings , lords and commons which have been the essential elements of Britain 's unwritten — and until now unchallenged — constitution . |
| 22 | Now you tell me which ones you think were an absolute doddle . |
| 23 | The ones you want are the good long ones are n't they ? |
| 24 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |