Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . |
| 3 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 7 | Bringing out reports on IT has been something of a growth industry . |
| 8 | In this country , the Basic Instinct furore has been something of a non-event . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has been something of a mystery how this move came about . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ There has been something of a buzz around . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Shaping the health care of around 900,000 people living in and around Glasgow has been something of a challenge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 19 | ‘ You know perfectly well that the girl has been anything but a comfort to me . ’ |
| 20 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 21 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 22 | I 'll tell you what , what I do n't need is somebody with an attitude problem . |
| 23 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 24 | But I was showing Chris my erm , you know , telephone bill which I was so horrified to discover was something like a hundred and nine pounds ! |
| 25 | Aristos of Salamis in Cyprus , who probably lived in the middle of the third century B.C. , is said by Arrian ( 7.15.5 ) to have been one of the two historians who not only spoke of an embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great , but made Alexander prophesy the future greatness of Rome , so impressed was he by the envoys . |
| 26 | So impressed was it with the Darlington operation that it also adopted the design of the questionnaire and the logo . |
| 27 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 28 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 29 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 30 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |