Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 3 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 4 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 5 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 6 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 7 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 8 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 9 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 10 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 11 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 12 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |
| 13 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 14 | Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands . |
| 15 | And most shops in the region are now dusting off the platform shoes and diamante brooches , which have been centre of the autumn collections of the last 50 years . |
| 16 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 17 | All of which have been precision engineered to last a lifetime . |
| 18 | Call upon Councillor to move a motion , details of which have been circulation . |
| 19 | As patients who have been stone free for >nine months constitute a low risk group for recurrence ( see below ) , the apparently lower recurrence rate in the chenodeyxholic acid treated patients may be an artefact . |
| 20 | Those party members who have been part of the fight for a fairer electoral system at Westminster may be wiser , for the time being , to turn their attentions to the internal so-called democracy inherited from those internecine struggles of the early 1980s . |
| 21 | To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 . |
| 22 | He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party . |
| 23 | In past years you have been kind enough to allow a skip to be sited on the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish . |
| 24 | So far we have been self supporting with most of the folks who come along donating to our needs , however we would like to make a donation to the Seventh Day Adventist Church who give us the use of their premises , gas and electricity free of charge . |
| 25 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 26 | We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . |
| 27 | There have been grade-A hypocrites all through history . |
| 28 | There have been port stations , waterfront interchanges between the railways and the water-borne transport of river , lake , and sea : in the United States , New Bedford , New Haven , and East Boston ; in Canada , Prince Rupert , Vancouver , Montreal ; in Britain , Holyhead , Folkestone Harbour , and Portsmouth Harbour . |
| 29 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 30 | Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils . |