Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] be [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 2 | Landscape here is on a grand scale , and in consequence paintings will become larger . |
| 3 | The research company Mintel estimates that the business-to-business incentives and promotions market alone is worth a staggering £1.32 billion , while the Institute of Sales Promotion values overall expenditure at over £7 billion . |
| 4 | I 'VE BEEN A BLOODY FOOL — ALL I ASK NOW IS FOR A SECOND CHANCE … |
| 5 | I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here . |
| 6 | They 've not been in a flat |
| 7 | Anyway , I 've not been in a black cab in years . |
| 8 | Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night |
| 9 | You 've never been on a big boat ? |
| 10 | Governments , military strategists , thousands of scientists , millions of dollars of time and research budgets have all been on a wild goose chase . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you come here , ’ mumbled Dottie , very close , ‘ to ask me fatuous questions the police have already been through a hundred times , or for other reasons ? ’ |
| 12 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence suggests that there have been fluctuations over time in patterns of who actually shares households , but that these have not been in a single direction . |
| 13 | CONTACT GROUPS These are usually for people who have a particular social problem in common or have just been through a similar trauma , like divorce or bereavement . |
| 14 | Wytch Farm managers have also been on a teambuilding exercise — but instead of sailing on water , however , they went to ground ! |
| 15 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 16 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 17 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
| 18 | Have n't been for a long time , no , I 'm not more |
| 19 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 20 | Well Michael says you have n't been to a decent service for six weeks , till back . |
| 21 | These , mostly one-day , workshops have occasionally been with a whole school staff ( primary , secondary and special schools ) and more often with teachers of particular types — probationers , English teachers , science teachers , senior teachers in charge of probationers , deputies and heads on DES management courses , primary heads in one county and one LEA 's entire Inspectorate . |
| 22 | A party of Teesside journalists have recently been on a fact-finding tour of ICI 's Group Environmental Laboratory at Brixham , Devon . |
| 23 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |