Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 2 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 3 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 4 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 5 | This sort of incident , and all the " in-jokes " we shared , perhaps not so funny to those outside the job , although trivial in themselves helped to keep up morale , and I think were a necessary part of the team spirit . |
| 6 | Now er they were having a concert and I think was the principal part and when he went to have his fee he said , Oh no you can send it to the Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 7 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 8 | I have been very happy with you , and you have been a wonderful wife . |
| 9 | Its top-end quad-processor was launched more than a year ago and there have been no major additions to the range since then . |
| 10 | But dBase is no slouch , and there have been no major bug reports , or complaints about existing files failing to run , so maybe the chosen mix is good enough . |
| 11 | Money is tight in the city and there have been no huge investments into the staging of Dublin 's year as City of Culture . |
| 12 | Medical therapy of diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis has been largely empirical and there have been no adequate controlled studies . |
| 13 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 14 | Since that time , interest rates have increased and there have been the well publicised problems in the sector . |
| 15 | I was wrong , and they have been a dramatic success . |
| 16 | Celtic 's problem is that Rangers are one of the tiny minority and they have been the pre-eminent team on a domestic level , while the other half of the Old Firm have gone four years without winning anything . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 18 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 19 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 20 | Other studies suggest that cyclosporin is of therapeutic value in ulcerative colitis , but there have been no controlled trials . |
| 21 | But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft . |
| 22 | According to Martin Orne , hypnosis may at times help to remove this amnesia , but there have been no good studies of the effect of hypnosis on trauma . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that in some rural areas , clitoridectomy is practised but there have been no confirmed reports and it would seem unlikely as it was not a characteristic of Meso-american cultures . |
| 24 | No one has ever refused to go up , but there have been a few that needed coaxing down ! ’ |
| 25 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
| 26 | But there have been an enormous number of changes . |
| 27 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 28 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 29 | With Girlschool reconvened , and the arrival of Jackie Carrera on bass , they seem poised at the beginning of a newish era , but what have been the high spots of the band 's history so far ? |