Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [adj] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 2 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 3 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 4 | Insider-outsider models are a more rigorous articulation of ideas which have been current in one form or another for many years , particularly in British Keynesian circles . |
| 5 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 6 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 7 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
| 8 | These three genera seem to form a natural grouping ( Box 2 ) and in the past they have been confused with one another : in commenting on the original description of the Buluk specimens , Deslon suggested that they should be attributed to Kenyapithecus ( rather than to Sivapithecus , as they then were ) , and in an addendum to their original description of Heliopithecus , Andrews and Martin recognized the affinities of that genus to Afropithecus , which was published just before Heliopithecus . |
| 9 | Although authors have arrived at different figures , thus reflecting the inherent difficulty and speculative nature of the task involved , they have been unanimous in one conclusion : persons are deprived of far more money by corporate crimes than they are by ordinary economic crimes , such as robbery , theft , larceny , and auto-theft . |
| 10 | In the broadest terms , it has been concerned with one aspect of youth history : how and why , and with what consequences for age relations , middle-class reformers put together a number of images of working-class adolescents . |
| 11 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 12 | A moment before he had been guilty of one damnable , wicked , fleeting moment of joy when he thought Garvey lay dead on the floor . |