Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 2 | As they culled Who 's Who there was a debate on the executive about the ‘ Old Lord approach ’ — finding someone who had been a financial force in the past , and would prove the paper was commercially sober . |
| 3 | The effect of this decision is to reverse the trend that was evident from the preceding cases in which there had been a gradual tendency to expand the range of third parties to whom accountants might be held to be liable as a result of errors in financial statements . |
| 4 | In particular the debate focusses on the American variety of independent film , of which there have been a large number at this year 's festival , ranging from Jim Jarmusch 's annoyingly fashionable Mystery Train to Julia Cameron 's God 's Will , which cost only 31,000 dollars to make . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is the only occasion on which there has been a substantial national strike in support of any industrial group of workers in Britain . |
| 6 | These fields , in which there has been a growing attempt to eradicate sex inequality , still show the persistence of women 's domestic commitments as a barrier to equality . |
| 7 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe this is the only country in which there has been a national acknowledgment of God 's directing Providence in the cholera , and I believe it is not a mere outward form but that more and more are becoming every day religious . ’ |
| 9 | And the education legislation , of which there has been a considerable amount , is now much more specific . ’ |
| 10 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 11 | Although in theory Gow disapproved of all art later than 1500 except for Rembrandt , Velázquez , and , with some reservations , Rubens , he left to the Fitzwilliam Museum , of which he had been a syndic from 1934 to 1957 , twenty-four works by Degas and six each by Rodin and Forain . |
| 12 | A selection of such writings appeared posthumously as Essays in Jewish History ( 1934 ) under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England , of which he had been a principal founder . |
| 13 | I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa . |
| 14 | The forensic odontologist told me there had been a deliberate attempt to make the teeth match . ’ |
| 15 | The facts are there there has been a staggering rise in attacks and murders this union must take the lead we call for the British government to bring in legislation to ban the evil nationalist and fascist political parties , and insist that government strengthens legal protection for third country nationals . |
| 16 | You will see there there has been a detailed discussion on this white paper , and members from that sub-committee made comments . |
| 17 | Mr Carbert said that previously Gilfoyle had told him he had been a paramedic in the Falklands and had treated casualties on the battlefield . |
| 18 | When Sandison had last seen him he had been a sad figure , a man approaching old age , tired , dishevelled and drunk . |
| 19 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 20 | And he himself had been a faithful husband , not that he had n't had his chances — of course he 'd had his chances — other supplications and wooing had come his way , more spirited too than that woman from the stationery shop . |
| 21 | He himself had been an American citizen for twenty-eight years when he replied otherwise to the adjutant 's inquiry . |
| 22 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
| 23 | Before it he had been a loud , jovial man , given to spontaneous bursts of affection . |