Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always thought that we entered the ERM at a rate of exchange that was much too high , and I have been reinforced in this view by Britain 's poor showing in international trade during the past 18 months . |
| 2 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
| 3 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 4 | I have been sought by this remarkably beautiful creature who is offering herself to me … |
| 5 | ‘ I have been asked on many occasions if we could have more modern replacements for our 12-year-old sail designs . |
| 6 | I have been asked by several Society members what it was like to take a ride on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and the best description that I know of is the account by the late Sir Jasper More in his book , ‘ A TALE OF TWO HOUSES ’ , published by Sir Jasper in 1978 . |
| 7 | my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these . |
| 8 | I have been intreated during these weeks , cajoled , wheedled , almost caressed , tortured , threatened , brow-beaten and all but blackmailed to step in as the saviour of society . ’ |
| 9 | I have been approached on many levels , from stripograms in the office to packages arriving at reception with worms and a message inside threatening even worse if I did n't see the band ( I did n't ) . |
| 10 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
| 11 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 12 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 13 | ‘ I HAVE been portrayed as some sort of tyrant landlady . |
| 14 | I have been accused of many things , but never of being a papal legate . |
| 15 | You have been struck by some particular type of person and have found a plausible set of circumstances in which a person of that type would commit a murder . |
| 16 | ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability . |
| 17 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 18 | ‘ And you have been persuaded by these arguments ? ’ |
| 19 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 20 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 21 | We have been referred to those authorities . |
| 22 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 23 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 24 | ‘ Unfortunately because of the contraction of the industry and the state of the market we have been forced into this position . |
| 25 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 26 | We have been approached by many members and friends who wish to contribute towards some form of memorial in thanksgiving for the life and work of our late founder and President Molly Braithwaite who died on 19th January this year . |
| 27 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 28 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 29 | They have been confirmed by many other sources since . |
| 30 | Of all the things that are project based , they have been audited on those projects , all the other procedures |