Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 2 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 3 | In November , he warned that if the likes of IBM and DEC did n't implement drastic measures they 'd go through ‘ Holy Heck ’ — DG has been through that and if the company is confident about one thing , it is that the worst is over . |
| 4 | No it 's down there , and in it er I wrote it last night actually when I was feeling pretty fucked off so it 's probably a bit out of order but I wrote to him and said erm tt Josh has been round this evening asking questions about what 's happened with his money erm and I think you 're really out of order . |
| 5 | ‘ The North has been through some hard times , and things are changing . |
| 6 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 7 | Buckley has been in this job since 1988 and in the department since 1981 , but she started as a lawyer in private practice , a profession where equality is far more of a reality than in industry . |
| 8 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 9 | In fact Samuel omits is from this point on , and in this respect his repetitions of the phrase become more Creole ; however , the consonant of the now starts to appear as [ ] ( l. 8 , three times ) , the pronunciation associated with " Standard " both in Jamaica and Britain . |
| 10 | Anyways , its quite funny — Souness has been after all our midfielders at some stage ( except Strach AFAIK ) , now he s moving onto our reserves . |
| 11 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
| 12 | Oh Danny 's been in this bloody car . |
| 13 | Since the inter-war years , Britain has been for many people an upwardly mobile society , with children from working-class homes winning jobs in the expanding service class . |
| 14 | The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Billy Bingham has been in this position so many times before and come up smiling . |
| 16 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 17 | I see Chummy has been round all the desks . ’ |
| 18 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |