Example sentences of "[pron] have be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know everyone has been drinking Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon for ages , but Bulgaria has much more to offer , with original grape varieties such as Melnik , Gamza and Mavrud which are not grown elsewhere . |
| 2 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 3 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 4 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 5 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 6 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 7 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 8 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 9 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 10 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 11 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 12 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 13 | I have been using unleaded petrol in my Ninety 2.5 litre . |
| 14 | I have been paying National Insurance and taxes for many years . |
| 15 | One example of an hypothesis which has been given serious attention in recent years is the possible link between electromagnetic fields generated by high-voltage power lines or supply cables and ill health . |
| 16 | Another facet of the problem of rural services , which has been given considerable publicity in England , is the demise of the village retail store due to economies of scale and retailing and stringent food hygiene regulations . |
| 17 | By their nature such inquiries do not fit one of the requisites of classical adjudication , which has been termed strong responsiveness . |
| 18 | In the delicate balance between trust and accountability , an Area Secretary should be confident that her/his report will always be acknowledged on the basis of its having been given serious attention . |
| 19 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 20 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 21 | A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 . |
| 22 | This focus on reconstruction put the CFLN in step with the resistance movements and the CNR , which had been discussing postwar renewal with increasing urgency ever since the American landings in North Africa . |
| 23 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 24 | Lance Corporal Wayne Edwards was flown home on one of the Hercules transport planes which have been making regular relief flights into Sarajevo . |
| 25 | Appointments announced by the York Diocese include the Rev Catherine Durnford , assistant curate at Whitby , who has been appointed assistant curate at Redcar ; the Rev Christopher Morgan becomes vicar of St Hilda 's , York , and the Rev Simon Wright has been re-appointed Rural Dean of Middlesbrough for five years . |
| 26 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 27 | He takes over from PHILIP SWANN who has been made assistant director ( adult services ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't explain how I feel in words and I do n't know what the future holds , ’ said Tamas , who has been granted political asylum and has applied for Hungarian citizenship . |
| 29 | Congratulations goes to Paddy Summers of the Sixmilewater league who has been elected assistant team manager to Russell Morrow , Ballymena . |
| 30 | Toni was one of 95 pupils from All Saints Catholic High School , Dukinfield , who has been gaining valuable work experience . |