Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 32 | For example , imagine the situation where you have been on a strict , very low calorie diet for a month or so . |
| 33 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ She 's been through a terrible ordeal , ’ she told her brother severely , drawing Ellen out of the solar with her . |
| 35 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 36 | She 's been in a funny mood this morning . |
| 37 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 38 | We 've been through a lengthy process of planning in paper , and production of lengthy community care plans , very much fine words and aspirations , we now need to bring er , er , the future means , especially in the context of resource constraint , means actually bringing the money alongside the proposals . |
| 39 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 40 | And you know we 've been to a few caravans |
| 41 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 42 | For some time we 've been in a false position and our two games against Birmingham have confirmed this . |
| 43 | We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK . |
| 44 | We have been through a ghastly situation , and I hope that some good can come of it . |
| 45 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 46 | We have been on a high speed , yeah . |
| 47 | And greater success at wealth creation has also meant that we have been in a better position to provide practical help to those that need it . |
| 48 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 49 | we 'll see , they 've been outside a little while , so |
| 50 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 51 | There must be armies of males squirming uncomfortably at the breakfast table , feeling they 've been in a similar movie . |
| 52 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 53 | Even those near the edge stand a better chance of survival than if they had been in a solitary nest far away in a place where local foxes can consume everything that is available . |
| 54 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 55 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 56 | Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework . |
| 57 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 58 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 59 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 60 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |