Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent . |
2 | Breeding Goby Cichlids is not easy — it is one of my ambitions and so far I have been unsuccessful . |
3 | Q. I would like to grow the beautiful Indian fern but so far I have been unsuccessful . |
4 | ‘ I have been discreet , ’ he said tightly . |
5 | Chairman , er I do n't often disagree with er Mr in front of me there , but I have been consistent in my approach over the years , er , wherever I 've had the had the opportunity to speak at political meetings and ministers have been present . |
6 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
7 | During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
8 | I have been fortunate recently to review several well-written books in which the author 's genuine dedication and enthusiasm for his or her subject is obvious and contagious . |
9 | It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first . |
10 | During my years at Lancaster I have been fortunate enough to visit many parts of the world as a lecturer . |
11 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
12 | She outlined her ideas in her autobiography , I Have Been Young ( 1935 ) . |
13 | Being Ten Years ' History of the Union of Democratic Control , 1924 , and I Have been Young , 1935 . ] |
14 | It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim . |
15 | Often during my varied and extremely active life , I have been overcome with acute nostalgia for Bristol and my University days — truly some of the happiest of my memories . |
16 | ‘ Perhaps I have been bored , without realising it . ’ |
17 | I have been selective and , in an attempt to draw out one or two for special note , I have a ‘ Ones to Watch ’ section of interesting titles . |
18 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
19 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
20 | And I am convinced — or rather , I have been convinced — that this felicity is due to the influence of the place in which they were born and in which they have lived all their lives … ’ |
21 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
22 | I have been guilty myself of telling electors , sceptical of their power , about how popular resentment brought down ‘ even Walpole ’ and forced a reluctant government into an unwanted war . |
23 | In the past , I have been guilty of reinforcing this icon ; now I am committed either to destroying it or affecting major reconstructions . |
24 | The Labour Party in Scotland has failed to deliver ; I have not been betrayed , I have been misguided — and I am certainly not alone . |
25 | As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour . |
26 | For most of my time in the House , I have been dissatisfied with them in the same way as I was dissatisfied with private Bills . |
27 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
28 | Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can |
29 | I have been delighted by the interest and support of the people of Killyleagh . |
30 | I have been delighted to have the opportunity to add to what my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon said . |