Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have now been answering cichlid queries for PFK for exactly seven years . |
| 2 | ‘ Len and I have always been good mates . |
| 3 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
| 4 | The peoples of France , England , Germany , Scandinavia and the Netherlands — which had previously been barbarous regions — had begun to catch the Greeks , Latins and Spaniards up and develop their own religious insights . |
| 5 | A more plausible alternative was the renovation of existing buildings , some of which had originally been solid structures . |
| 6 | I had lost the excitement of the first Ramble to the Trossachs which had all been new territory . |
| 7 | It was dominated by a huge television in one corner and she pointed me towards an armchair , covered in worn corduroy , which had once been dark red . |
| 8 | She 'd never been comfortable trading sallies with men . |
| 9 | Her husband — she had still been married then-told her not to look . |
| 10 | Two senior ND members , Tzannis Tzannetakis ( who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1989 ) and Athanassios Kanellopoulos , were appointed Deputy Prime Ministers . |
| 11 | Shapour Bakhtiar , 76 , who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1979 ( Jan. 3-Feb. 5 — see pp. 29740-44 ) in the last days of the Shah 's regime , was murdered at his home in a Paris suburb on Aug. 6 ; French police only discovered his body on Aug. 8 , together with the body of an aide apparently also killed in the attack . |
| 12 | There were nine women in the 19-member cabinet appointed by Brundtland , who had previously been Prime Minister in 1981 and in 1986-89 [ see pp. 30748 ; 31246-47 ; 34502-03 ; 36984-85 ] . |
| 13 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 14 | When Clifford Smyth was persuaded to resign from the DUP , he also felt obliged to leave the Free Presbyterian Church , not because the leadership of the Church suggested it , but because he felt a tension between himself and other congregation members who had previously been political colleagues . |
| 15 | Those arrested in May also included three members of the DC 's national executive ; Sergio Radaelli , the PSI nominee to Cariplo , Milan 's biggest savings bank ; Massimo Ferlini , a PDS member who had previously been public works commissioner for Milan ; and prominent industrialists such as Roberto Schellino , a former technical director of Cogefar-Impresit ( Italy 's leading construction company , which had recently been bought by the motor company Fiat ) and Mario San Vittore Lodigiani , vice-president of the Lodigiani construction company . |
| 16 | A small , elegant building , it had been constructed in the last century by the Sanvitale family , who had always been passionate lovers of music and theatre . |
| 17 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 18 | We need to ensure that the management of community care is improved to meet the needs of those who are discharged from hospitals and , more particularly , of those who have never been long-stay patients in our hospitals for the mentally ill . |
| 19 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 20 | There has already been extensive research on these , at Exeter and elsewhere , using computer techniques of control , recording and analysis . |
| 21 | There has also been preferential loss of the small foot bones : phalanges ( phal ) and metapodials ( met ) . |
| 22 | There has also been deliberate wooing of parents who had already made their selection , although it is surely obvious that changes in mid-stream can only be damaging , in terms of stability , education and coach/player relationship . |
| 23 | There has also been significant criticism of companies that have entered into transactions that were unsuitable for their needs and that increased their financial risk . |
| 24 | Most of the growth has been in issuance of eurobonds , but there has also been significant growth in issuance of foreign bonds , largely in Swiss francs . |
| 25 | There has also been significant investment in the areas of health , safety , quality , the environment and in personnel development and training . |
| 26 | There has also been growing evidence , members were told , of underage drinking in certain areas of the town , coupled with joy-riding . |
| 27 | There has also been considerable development in sail design in recent years with the result that sails are now far more controllable than the earlier types which resembled blown-out bedsheets . |
| 28 | But there has also been disturbing evidence , particularly on the family front . |
| 29 | There has recently been considerable discussion in the social science literature relating to questions of industrial transformation . |
| 30 | Note that it does not have to be shown that there has actually been oppressive enforcement simply that such is " reasonably capable " . |