Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had rarely been his style to use that instrument . |
| 2 | There , it has not so much been its Calvinism that has been welcome as its emphasis upon the inerrancy of Scripture . |
| 3 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
| 4 | She tried to feel pleased that she had n't descended from such uncompromising stock , but it was still a shock to have been told that William Ash was not her father , and that Eddie had only been her half-brother . |
| 5 | At the eleventh hour , he underestimated the Stealers — as if they had only been his playthings . |
| 6 | He recognised his ex-pupil 's handwriting on a letter and thereby identified the highwayman — even though Turpin had only been his pupil for three quarters of a year . |
| 7 | She was a tall , awkward-looking girl overwhelmed at being close to someone who had long been her idol . |
| 8 | It is on the Welsh border — and I am to reside there in my principality , pursuing my studies under the tutelage of my uncle Earl Rivers and the guardianship of him who has long been my chamberlain , Sir Thomas Vaughan . ’ |
| 9 | Eleanor Thorne has long been my friend . |
| 10 | IT HAD long been my ambition to learn to fly , but I had discounted it as being too expensive and not very easy to start . |
| 11 | ‘ It has long been my opinion that you , my dear Shiona , are the most contemptible individual that I have ever encountered . ’ |
| 12 | Spokesman for Department of Environment Speaking personally , it has long been my view that these matters of food safety should be in the hands of a Minister of Consumer Affairs . |
| 13 | It has long been my view , and I have argued consistently , that the two applications should be considered together . |
| 14 | It has long been our practice to avoid performing diagnostic dilatation and curettage in young women if possible . |
| 15 | Below are our sales estimates for the Activity Book ( classroom version ) for the first twelve months : |
| 16 | School uniforms , Sixties starlets and rockers have all been her inspiration , while the slogan T-shirts themselves were less of an invention than a Woodstock revival . |
| 17 | Perhaps it had all been his fault . |
| 18 | They 've all been my way , Meredith — tall , short , slender , curvy , and every one of them with one big fat sin motivating their pretty heads and bodies . |
| 19 | It 's all been my fault . |
| 20 | You 're saying it 's all been my fault ? ’ |
| 21 | Under Mr Levin its high-tech ambitions are bigger than most , and so are its debts . |
| 22 | Theory is radical , and so are its advocates . |
| 23 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 24 | Well , so are their customers . |
| 25 | We should not blindly make the easy moralistic assumption that whores are disgraceful and so are their customers , of course . |
| 26 | But the men are lapping it up — so are their floosies . |
| 27 | But the world of the women is real through and through , and so are their appendages . |
| 28 | Linfield are keen to get him ; so are their fans . |
| 29 | But if you start putting down investment in new plant and equipment when interest is at 8% , and you find in a year 's time that you 're paying 15% — and so are your customers , and they 're not buying — it screws the numbers up . |
| 30 | " You 're welcome , and so are your friends . |