Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 's [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of the rectum in pop is something rarely acknowledged , although it 's been a constant ; from George Clinton to the Beastie Boys ( with their crapped-in-pants waddledance ) , a record 's crucial when it has a lot of bottom . |
| 2 | You could not , no , a miner once he 's been a miner , can not go down er a pit and say to anyone down a pit , and say to anyone down a pit , that he 's not a miner . |
| 3 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 4 | If it 's worked or not , if it 's been a success or not |
| 5 | Women who have become pregnant and do n't want to have a child — if it 's been a mistake — have been able to have abortions . |
| 6 | And I 'm intending to , to hold a few more assemblies as well to sort of get interest going again because it 's been a while since we did an assembly on it , so if we do another one , that usually gets it going again does n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ I know it 's wrong , Joe , when it 's been a tragedy for so many people , but it 's made life easier for us . |
| 8 | HOW DO you follow up your first single when it 's been a Number One ? |
| 9 | He looks as though he 's been a footballer in his time . |