Example sentences of "they [vb base] be [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 2 | we 'll see , they 've been outside a little while , so |
| 3 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 4 | There must be armies of males squirming uncomfortably at the breakfast table , feeling they 've been in a similar movie . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework . |