Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't help feeling , ’ says Howard , sticking his head forward ruefully , ‘ now I know who you are , that I 've been a bit outspoken in some of my remarks about the system . ’ |
| 2 | In answer to Merrill 's questioning face , he went on , ‘ I think I once told you that I 'd been a bit — wild . |
| 3 | The way he wrote it , I guessed he was as sure as anyone that I had been the trigger man . |
| 4 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 5 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 6 | Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) . |
| 7 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 8 | He also suggested that their had been a clash of opinions . |
| 9 | We learn from a visit Emilia made to Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , astrologer , in 1597 , that she had been a favourite at the court of Elizabeth , had become mistress of Henry Carey , first Baron Hunsdon [ q.v. ] , and had been ‘ maintained in great pomp ’ until 1592 , when , becoming pregnant , she was married to Captain Alphonso Lanier , of the other leading family of court musicians , the Laniers , who came to London from Rouen in 1561 . |
| 10 | She knew that she had been a success and that Ludo was proud of her . |
| 11 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 12 | It was a cruel trick that she had been a dream , that he could not join her yet . |
| 13 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 14 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 15 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 16 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 17 | All that mattered was that she had been the fool . |
| 18 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
| 19 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 20 | Perhaps she had begun to realise that she had been the victim of an unhappy marriage , rather than simply the cause of one . |
| 21 | Kenya 's Chief Magistrate , Joseph Mango , ruled on Oct. 27 , 1989 , at the inquest of a British tourist , Julie Ward , whose body was found in the Masai Mara game reserve in September 1988 , that she had been the victim of " foul play by persons unknown " , contrary to previous official claims that she had been killed by wild animals [ see p. 36917 ] . |
| 22 | The women accused of murdering Linda Ann McMullen , 30 , then tried an elaborate charade to suggest that she had been the victim of a sex attack by a man , it was alleged at Mold Crown Court . |
| 23 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 24 | It was not necessary for him to know that she 'd been a widow for years . |
| 25 | You 'd have known that , would n't you , that you 'd been a twin ? ’ |
| 26 | You 've extended courtesy , patience , and fair-mindedness to all , so that you 've been a tribute to the enquiry process if I may say so . |
| 27 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 28 | Now the trouble is that we have been the victim of those successes . |
| 29 | The story was an ancient warrant that the girls of those parts were the beauties of their day , that there 'd been no break with the proud Greek tradition . |
| 30 | When he was accused , quite erroneously , of siphoning money from school funds he honestly believed that everyone would realise that there 'd been a mistake . ’ |