Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 2 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 3 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 4 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 5 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 6 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 7 | Measurements and floor plan alone wo n't convey the atmosphere , but if a personal viewing is not possible make sure you have been supplied with written details before you begin working out your item . |
| 8 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 9 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We have been rewarded with significant new business in tableware and giftware and , in particular , the response to our bridal tableware marketing strategy has been very encouraging indeed . |
| 11 | At all courts up to the present we have been received with extraordinary courtesy . |
| 12 | We have been liaising with those bodies who are surveying associated areas in this field , but the additional information we gather here should be of great use in future policy-making . |
| 13 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 14 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 15 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 16 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 17 | In the great storm of October 1987 , many of the original trees in that avenue were uprooted but they have been replaced with young lime trees . |
| 18 | When similar proposals have been made in the past they have been greeted with well-founded objections on both moral and empirical grounds , given the known inaccuracy of existing predic-tion techniques ( see Bottoms , 1977 ; Radzinowicz and Hood , 1979 ; Bottoms and Brownsword , 1993 ) . |
| 19 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 20 | Winter smogs are essentially polluted fogs , so there have been a number of occasions when they have been seeded with dry ice or silver iodide at certain airports so as to allow aircraft to land safely . |
| 21 | No but I think it is interesting that some of the Parish Councils for instance who initially were opposed to the application and very strongly , as they have been supplied with further and better information have modified their position and are now saying subject to rigorous planning controls they are no longer opposed outright to the application . |
| 22 | They have been used with great success in the analysis of repeated measures data and ar increasingly coming to be used to efficiently analyse complex sample surveys . |