Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 3 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 4 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 5 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 6 | She has been appointed public relations assistant . |
| 7 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 8 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 9 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 10 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 11 | She obviously wants to graduate to serious emotional drama , but all she does is turn interesting subjects ( in this case the buried feminist history of women 's baseball ) into mush . |
| 12 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 13 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 14 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 15 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 16 | He has been granted legal aid for the case , which if successful could lead to hundreds of other claims . |
| 17 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 18 | Sometimes , however , a customer will complain that he has been given incorrect change . |
| 19 | Gardiner , the Observer 's architectural critic , knew Epstein , Lady Epstein and their family from the early Fifties and this biography is authorised in that he has been given unprecedented access to family papers , including letters between the artist and Kathleen Garman . |
| 20 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 21 | He has been undergoing expensive treatment and is trying to raise cash for the Ray Kennedy Trust Fund to help sufferers of the disease . |
| 22 | He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks . |
| 23 | He has been offered alternative deals to cover both options . |
| 24 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 25 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 26 | Recently , however , it has been given added emphasis and urgency by the growing appreciation that the damage being done to the environment by the use of fossil fuels may require drastic restrictions on their use . |
| 27 | An environmental statement was required from the company it has been given full publicity I believe that the Planning Committee and County Planning Committee today have sufficient information to come to a decision an informed decision . |
| 28 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
| 29 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 30 | The supermarket firm , Gateway , is taking legal action against a Northampton firm which it alleges is selling fire-damaged Gateway foods . |