Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my skill has been to take the legacy and build on it . |
| 2 | No , the fact is that my trustees have been putting the screws on . |
| 3 | In this introductory discussion , my concern has been to stress the need for empathy and the difficulties in achieving it in relation to old people . |
| 4 | ‘ My objective has been to strengthen the recovery by giving help to business . |
| 5 | My firm 's been seeking the backing of the Prince 's financial group , ’ he said , nodding towards the far side of the room , ‘ and — ’ |
| 6 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 7 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |
| 8 | Their job had been to locate the communications nerve-centres surrounding Bremen . |
| 9 | Their aim has been to alter the way in which management perceives its interests , calculates costs and benefits , and establishes objectives . |
| 10 | As a result , Syrian forces and their allies have been pounding the Christian half of Beirut with artillery for several weeks . |
| 11 | Her body had been found the morning before by the side of the pool in the little park on the south side of the royal compound . |
| 12 | Her aim had been to get the girls excited about mathematics , and to give them confidence in their own ability . |
| 13 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 14 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 15 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 16 | Because their environment had been reduced the pandas had no alternative but to remain where there was no food . |
| 17 | A Quiche Indian woman from Guatemala who has achieved worldwide recognition by speaking out against the oppression of her people has been awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 18 | Sadly , Maastricht represents the third occasion in half a century on which Britain has been given the chance to face its European future and , I regret to say , the third occasion in that time on which we have chosen to seek refuge in the past . |
| 19 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 20 | They support the FDR-FMLN on a negotiated solution , condemn the role of the United States and have opted for electoral abstention on the grounds that their children have been denied the vote and that therefore the conditions ( or free elections do not exist . |
| 21 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 22 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |
| 23 | If you ask me , some of you odds-and-sods have been playing the old soldier . |
| 24 | Having completed our ‘ good for us ’ walk , we settled down by one of the two huge log fires with our paperbacks in the happy anticipation that tea would arrive promptly at four and would consist of improbably thinly cut home-made bread and butter and other bakings , whose smell had been pervading the lounge for some time with forecasts of gratifications to come . |
| 25 | He had studied the plays exhaustively , and published in 1765 a new edition whose Preface has been called the most famous Shakespearean essay ever written . |
| 26 | But in general , discounting was this year considered of less significance than the proliferation of bargain bookshops , whose advent had been heralded the previous year but whose growth in numbers has evidently continued since . |
| 27 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 28 | Before the Swinbrook farmer had finished talking to them , Boz leaped to his feet to say , angrily , ‘ We Romanies have been using the forest for hundreds of years . |
| 29 | But the manager CastleCourt , Belfast 's best known glass complex , says his building has been given the all-clear following tests . |
| 30 | Watts and his team have been given the freedom to manage , they have lifted the quality of staff and have improved productivity . |