Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the lion 's share of increased welfare spending since the 1960s has been on programmes most people approve of : social security ( pensions ) financed by tax on earnings , and medical insurance for old people ( Medicare ) . |
| 2 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 3 | The data prepared was for directories such as Crockford 's Clerical Directory and the OUP General Catalogue . |
| 4 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 5 | The fragmentary remains from Eccles have been interpreted as the figures of two gladiators , although , in light of the subjects of other figural designs in Britain ( see below ) , this might also have been a hunting scene ( or could have been of figures other than gladiators ; see the drawing of Cupids as gladiators : pI . |
| 6 | ‘ Ernie ’ had been around horses all his life . |
| 7 | Oh you 've been to solicitors this morning ? |
| 8 | I 've been on tablets all night . |
| 9 | It 's a novelty , and I 've been with animals all my life . |
| 10 | The Mites over school age resented being with kids all the time and tried to assert their freedom . |
| 11 | Now as was saying earlier on , that she 's been with flowers all her life , well I have n't . |