Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope these problems wo n't discourage your company from continuing to run the service , which I hope has been a success this year . |
| 2 | I happen to have been a keen supporter of the way of Margaret Thatcher 's attitude to Europe , highly sceptical . |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to have been a shock to a number of people . |
| 4 | SEEKING information on Peter Roberts , who I believe to have been a bomber pilot during World War Two . |
| 5 | Personally , I sincerely hope that we will be able to continue with these open lectures , which I think have been a significant feature of the university 's life and of our relationships with the community . |
| 6 | ‘ You have to have been a variety artist or a dependant , ’ says Elliott , formerly a dancer and the late Dick Emery 's manager . |
| 7 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 8 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 9 | The bombardment destroyed our first system , of course , and there seem to have been a lot of gas shells landing amongst our gunners — those that were n't killed — and they say the Hun did a lot of damage with his trench mortars and those awful Minenwerfers . |
| 10 | I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then . |
| 11 | Many are extremely tense , not only since the infarct , but have been for many years , and it is possible that the inward tension that they suffer has been a contributory factor to their disease . |
| 12 | They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown . |
| 13 | They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown . |