Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he thinks I 'm another canary you see ! |
| 2 | Well where , where Tony lives there 's that village is over three thousand years old . |
| 3 | Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’ |
| 4 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 5 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 6 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 7 | Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern . |
| 8 | At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased . |
| 9 | Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments . |
| 10 | Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade . |
| 11 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
| 12 | With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ? |
| 13 | In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ? |
| 14 | Has there been exceptional wastage ? |
| 15 | Dartford Theatre opened and ‘ Barefoot Video ’ has it 's first year of full-time professional worker . |
| 16 | the assignment has it 's unique number |
| 17 | Like most cities , it has it 's fair share of crime . |
| 18 | The relationship used for this purpose is CONTAINS-BINARY-OF which is tight coupling and takes one of three forms : |
| 19 | who says she 's square face ? |
| 20 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 21 | He says you 're one hell of a guy . |
| 22 | Anyway she left twelve pence on the floor and Gary says whose is this money , said you leave it there , it 's for Enid 's no nobody touch this chuffing twelve pence . |
| 23 | She left twelve pence on the floor and Bill put it in the cubby hole in the fireplace and Gary says whose is this money and Arthur was going to pick it up an'all , he says leave that he says that 's for Enid 's money . |
| 24 | As it happens there is one sound in this production more dramatic than any of the music — and that is the sound of a knife being tossed into a pool of water after it has been plunged into the heart of Pelleas . |
| 25 | As it happens there is one sound in this production more dramatic than any of the music — and that is the sound of a knife being tossed into a pool of water after it has been plunged into the heart of Pelleas . |
| 26 | Wherever that happens there is holy communion . |
| 27 | Anne Owers , director of Justice , a charity which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice , also says there are serious question marks over the conviction , which she describes as ‘ dodgy ’ . |
| 28 | Although recognizing that there are no realistic alternatives to some tests involving animals , Fentem says there are many animal tests for which alternatives do exist . |
| 29 | Menlo Park , California-based Objectivity Inc says its shipped over 50,000 development and runtime licences for Objectivity/DB and says there are 20 Objectivity applications in production . |
| 30 | I have ruined everything , and Aycliffe says there is little hope of your succeeding in a contest with Araminta . ’ |