Example sentences of "[vb pp] [Wh det] be [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1968 the executive sanitary officer in his annual report for 1967 said that over one thousand houses were occupied by more than one family and in several cases seven or eight families occupied what was originally a single dwelling . |
| 2 | Defence cuts and a changing world order have turned what was once a bustling workshop into an empty and eerie expanse of space . |
| 3 | With ‘ Boss Drum ’ , they 've produced what is virtually a concept album . |
| 4 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 5 | In such cases what we need to discover is the most specific head all of whose incompatibles are xenonyms — that is , a head such that , for any hyponym , at least one incompatible can be found which is also a philonym of the modifier . |
| 6 | A Christian feminist who has propounded what is clearly a ‘ high ’ Christology ( though it may also be a ‘ low ’ one , for she wants to speak clearly of the humanity of Jesus ) is Patricia Wilson-Kastner , in her book Faith , Feminism and the Christ . |
| 7 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 8 | Massive deforestation in the Himalayan foothills during the 1980s had aggravated what was already a serious problem in Bangladesh . |