Example sentences of "that i have been [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 2 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 3 | But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground . |
| 4 | And it is only fairly recently — probably since my mother 's death — that I have been able to abandon the naive belief that such an apparently ‘ perfect ’ relationship is indicative of a good marriage . |
| 5 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 7 | That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’ |
| 8 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 9 | A fortnight later , W. & R. Chambers placed an advertisement in the Edinburgh Evening Co it rant ( the first of its kind that I have been able to find in the local press ) , reading : " Printing : wanted : young women of good education and character , to act as compositors " . |
| 10 | The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I have learned that I have been able to survive an experience such as this , which certainly I would not have bet on myself to do . |
| 12 | They precept on the constituent district councils and they receive direct grant from Government and the problems encountered in Derbyshire where the county council reduced the budget approved by the police authority have been quite eliminated and that My Lords is the only reasons that I have been able to trace so far for amending the law as this Bill proposes . |
| 13 | Give my respect and thanks to the author , whose novel is the first English one and the French are only romances now , that I have been able to read for many a day . |
| 14 | I have lost so many big barbel on the Hampshire Avon , Dorset Stour , and the Severn through this that I have been ready to dispense altogether with swimfeeder fishing for big barbel . |
| 15 | I must also acknowledge to the Minister and the House that I have been unable to interview my constituent face to face . |