Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 2 | it should 've been something like this . |
| 3 | it might 've been someone from cafe phoning up |
| 4 | " If you mean are they worth it compared to contributions made by surgeons and musicians , then of course the answer is " No " , " he said . |
| 5 | When people talk , the sounds they make are nothing like written words . |
| 6 | In fact , so impressed am I with his performance that I shall personally be paying his train fare from Birmingham twice a week . |
| 7 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 8 | Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . |
| 9 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 10 | A bloc the West can do business with Eastern Europe has been something of a wasteland for EC investment but as Julian Bullard reports , all that is changing . |
| 11 | There has been something of a revolution in raising standards of quality in a number of manufacturing firms by encouraging departments within a factory to operate almost as separate companies . |
| 12 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 13 | Bringing out reports on IT has been something of a growth industry . |
| 14 | In this country , the Basic Instinct furore has been something of a non-event . |
| 15 | At an outstanding elevation of 1000 feet , the Fat Lamb has had its fair share of battles with the elements , and its proprietors , Paul and Helen Bonsall , admit that the garden 's survival has been something of a minor miracle . |
| 16 | It has been something of a mystery how this move came about . |
| 17 | Instead there has been something of a supermarket approach : according to the interests of the teacher a number of packages have been bought off the shelves and put in the course trolley . |
| 18 | ‘ There has been something of a buzz around . |
| 19 | Since the late 1970's there has been something of a boom in British Rail 's passenger services , with over 150 new stations having been opened and several new services developed . |
| 20 | Shaping the health care of around 900,000 people living in and around Glasgow has been something of a challenge . |
| 21 | Children can be the most cruel of all , and there has been everything from physical fights to slanging matches . ’ |
| 22 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 23 | Therefore , before Tamburlaine arrives , there has been no-one to really challenge his authority and supremacy , and so he is justifiably confident and arrogant about the forthcoming battle . |
| 24 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 25 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 26 | We can then consider the implications of this analysis for one of the general views identified in the introduction — that there has been nothing but conflict between science and religion . |
| 27 | In these three months there has been nothing but support for this scheme , some of it qualified , but nevertheless support , that it should go ahead . |
| 28 | I 'm beginning to think that car park has been nothing but trouble since it was built . ’ |
| 29 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 30 | There has been nothing like it in human history . |