Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been European golf 's generalissimo and it is appropriate that the decade opened to the sound of a Ballesteros devastation . |
| 2 | All the indications are that man 's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation , have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it , and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be . |
| 3 | I am sorry Diana 's marriage has failed but she does n't know what a tragedy is . |
| 4 | Nor are social workers ' preconceptions changed by the experience of using residential placements . |
| 5 | For while there are detailed teacher 's notes provided , the Student 's Books themselves are not at all prescriptive . |
| 6 | It had been old Jan 's idea . |
| 7 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 8 | That had been old Throgmorton 's idea . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , many wars in history have been old men 's wars . |
| 10 | There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work . |
| 11 | I am afraid Nader 's wife and child have been kidnapped in England . ’ |
| 12 | Paul 's verdict : ease of use and good performance in sheltered conditions are this stove 's good points — and the propane/butane fuel mix makes it suitable for colder seasons . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , so you are this lady 's husband ! ’ |
| 14 | It deletes the facts empty(x) and to-move(C) which are this operation 's necessary conditions , and adds filled ( x , C ) and to-move(D) where D C. |
| 15 | Beach are this week 's archetypal , one-syllable hopeful indie band , a four-song EP is the correct thing for them to be releasing , and titles like ‘ Burn ’ and ‘ Seeing ’ are the correct things to be on it , each one laced with all the right expansive guitar and aptly sweet and cottony ( female ) vocal . |
| 16 | HERE ARE THIS month 's special offers : a Sony cordless telephone , £56 . |
| 17 | More interesting to the historian are this book 's accounts of MI5 's activities on the counter-subversive front — chiefly against the British Fascists , the Communist Party of Great Britain , and the Peace Pledge Union — and of its interminable behind-the-scenes wrangles with other government agencies , especially SIS . |
| 18 | It may not have been this boy 's fault . ’ |
| 19 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 20 | A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’ |
| 21 | According to Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade : ‘ It has always been this Government 's policy to put current services into the private sector where this makes sense . |
| 22 | Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds . |
| 23 | Even Tillett , regarded by many as the British equivalent of Larkin in language and syndicalist beliefs and whose attacks upon more conventional trade union officials twenty years earlier had not been unlike Larkin 's , saw the writing on the wall . |
| 24 | Guatemala has been Central America 's sideshow . |
| 25 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 26 | Distributed on the two mezzanine floors are six servants ' rooms , which include the menservants ' bathroom with a water closet and the butler 's bedroom . |
| 27 | The early redemption penalties are six months ' interest on the one-year deal ; four months on the two-year one ; and on the five-year loan , four months interest in years 2 , 3 and 4 and three months in year 5 . |
| 28 | They 're Caledonian MacBrayne 's |
| 29 | We 're sure Moby 's behaviour is simply a phase . |
| 30 | They 're all Neil 's presents . |