Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think are your greatest strengths ? |
| 2 | Very often , when they sound pallid and over-precise , the versions we have received are their latest re-telling , too smooth and polished , fixed and logical . |
| 3 | Ma McKeown said thirteen must 've been her lucky number because she never had no more after that one . |
| 4 | I was a flying boy , came in here and all of a sudden was involved in an operation that , that was er quite intense erm the , the noise of the aircraft erm the erm hustle and bustle that we went through , the , the briefings and the er experience of , of erm having a meal that could 've been your last meal . |
| 5 | I take it that these are essential to capitalist society and that what has to be explained are their precise bases , their degree of effectivity and their often largely unintended consequences . |
| 6 | " I mean are they mainstream novels and stories or thrillers or sci-fi or something like that ? " |
| 7 | We must accept that for any given F , if x has F , x has it necessarily ; i.e. all the properties that x has are its defining properties . |
| 8 | The damaging feature of oralism in the last hundred years or so in Great Britain has been its total rejection of any other method of educating deaf children . |
| 9 | He has been involved with the organisation for 30 years and has been its regional head for a decade . |
| 10 | One reason for Germany 's popularity has been its cumbersome process of checking claims for asylum . |
| 11 | Less immediately obvious has been its powerful influence on the training and recruitment of the civil service for most of the period under review . |
| 12 | The main reason has been its long standing commitment ( still evident in some quarters ) to the idea that each of the different forms of functional psychosis is really a distinct type of brain disease , equivalent to those studied in neurology . |
| 13 | A long-standing contention among geographers has been the importance — if not uniqueness — of their discipline as a bridge between the natural and the social sciences ; to some , its raison d'être has been its integrating function . |
| 14 | Swaziland gained its independence from Britain in 1967 and this has been its national flag ever since . |
| 15 | Michelle 's starring role opposite Jack Nicholson , Cher and Susan Sarandon in The Witches Of Eastwick is the one that first brought her to the attention of British audiences , however This month we 'll see her as saucy , sexy restaurant manageress Jo Ann Vallenari alongside Mel Gibson in Tequila Sunrise , and in Dangerous Liaisons- But it has been her straight lead role in the comedy Married To The Mob that has ignited the American critics ' praise . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been her acting experience , being in front of cameras from an early age which sets her apart . |
| 17 | That , says Mr Tyson , has been their only blessing . |
| 18 | In the past , one of the most serious barriers to the growth of online services has been their unfriendly character . |
| 19 | Their two eldest sons returned home from school to find their parents loading a furniture van … but worst affected has been their youngest BJ . |
| 20 | A constantly recurring theme of The Wedding Present has been their overriding normality . |
| 21 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 22 | However , the toenail in the pint of real ale , for me , has been your relentless inability to represent Christian music positively , as represented again by your article ‘ For Easter 's A Jolly Good Fellow ’ . |
| 23 | So , for instance , when asked : ‘ What has been your greatest achievement ? ’ the philosopher 's reply will start with ‘ Well , it depends what you really mean by ‘ greatest achievement ’ and the context in which you 're using it . ’ |
| 24 | What has been your proudest moment this year ? |
| 25 | What has been your best holiday ? |
| 26 | What has been your best club or warehouse experience ? |
| 27 | The computer part of the study has been my personal research interest , but it has also over the years provided stimulating final-year projects for students in the Engineering Mathematics Department . |
| 28 | So this has been my first step towards designing something different . |
| 29 | Throughout my political life , I 've received restain sustained help from the G M B. In a very real sense , the union has been my political family . |
| 30 | Over the past twelve months it has been my great privilege to become more closely involved with those with disabilities , I have seen the enormous efforts being made to encourage participation at a very high competitive level as well as tremendous strides being made at many clubs to bring disabled people into sailing at all levels . |