Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 2 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 3 | The good news is that Emma has been given the all clear and regular check up appointments at St.Bart 's and Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford will make sure she gets the right care from the experts . |
| 4 | GRAEME HICK has been given the all clear for Thursday 's second Test against Australia at Lord 's despite cracking a toe . |
| 5 | GRAEME HICK has been given the all clear for Thursday 's second Test against Australia at Lord 's despite cracking a toe . |
| 6 | McDermott has been given the all clear after missing last week 's game at Portsmouth because of an eye injury and Childs out for a month faces a late check on an injured groin . |
| 7 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 9 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 10 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 11 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 12 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 13 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 14 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 15 | Exiled Nigerian poet Olu Oguibe has been awarded the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature for his collection A Gathering Fear ( Kraft Books ) . |
| 16 | A hard-working Society member , for many years a member of the National Display Team and nore recently of the Surrey and Sussex team , she has been putting the latter through their paces for ‘ In the Pink ’ , the ball item first performed at last year 's Reunion . |
| 17 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 18 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 19 | But the White Paper has been give a less than enthusiastic welcome in some quarters , Liberal Democrat spokesman Simon Hughes says he 's worried that the Environment Secretary 's announcements may be full of good intentions which wo n't be carried out . |
| 20 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 21 | Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards . |
| 22 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 23 | And another I noticed erm Simon 's been bringing a few of his friends home from school and erm I mean he 's in a class of thirty eight |
| 24 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 25 | after it 's been cut the least you can do is give yourself a shake |
| 26 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 27 | ‘ The cup 's been refilled a few times since then , ’ observes Len , ‘ and with some funny stuff . ’ |