Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have had success but I have also been involved in relegation fights . |
| 2 | Since then I have also been fortunate enough to have played in ten Test Matches for England . ’ |
| 3 | I have also been able to make significant extra resources available to safeguard the environment , on which expenditure is planned to increase by more than 27 per cent . |
| 4 | I have also been able to clarify what I am good at and what I enjoy ’ . |
| 5 | I have also been lucky in Berlin . |
| 6 | ‘ I have already been involved with placing two Romanian children with families , ’ she told SUNDAY LIFE . |
| 7 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 8 | ‘ Candidates have been ringing from all over the country wanting copies ; I have only been able to get my hands on two copies yet , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I have now been answering cichlid queries for PFK for exactly seven years . |
| 10 | I HAVE long been impressed by the number of careless references in the Scriptures to the faithful blithely taking it upon themselves to raise houses to the Lord . |
| 11 | I have long been impressed , for example , by the changes that occur between the Frasnian and Famennian stages of the Late Devonian . |
| 12 | I have long been suspicious of the official line that terminal bonuses are directly attributed to investment surplus and that poor value on death or on policy premium amendment is the price for higher returns if you are lucky enough to make it to retirement . |
| 13 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 14 | I have long been concerned about the time lapse from the commissioning of a book to its appearance in the shops . |
| 15 | But by mentioning them I have perhaps been able to show that when theists talk of God as ‘ both far and near ’ , or as ‘ visible and unseen ’ , they are not guilty of a simple contradiction in terms . |
| 16 | The work does help create a climate , but it 's about the most lonely thing I have ever been involved in , in my entire life . |
| 17 | ‘ How very strange , ’ mused Miss Hardbroom , ‘ not only the noisiest , but also the most knowledgeable frog I have ever been privileged to meet . ’ |
| 18 | He would later describe the king as " one of the most brilliant statesman I have ever been privileged to meet , with a fantastic memory and a third eye which gives him great sensitivity and extraordinary perception . " |
| 19 | The longest time I have ever been alone with her . |
| 20 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |
| 21 | I have hitherto been guilty of no very enormous or vile actions . |
| 22 | ‘ I have sometimes been astonished to hear the contemptuous manner in which Europeans in the Indies speak of [ Mughal architecture ] , ’ he writes , adding of the Delhi Jama Masjid : ‘ I grant that this building is not constructed according to those rules of architecture which we seem to think ought to be implicitly followed ; yet I can see no fault that offends taste . |
| 23 | As I said , apart from Spanish I am not a speaker of any of the other languages I have recently been involved in . |
| 24 | I have recently been involved in preliminary discussion with a private sector developer , and with British Coal , concerning two separate projects which could lead to the provision of serviced development land . |
| 25 | It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ? |
| 26 | ‘ I have always been counter-cyclical , ’ says Moran , who made his first millions from aviation insurance in the late 1960s and backed the Boeing 747 when nobody else would . |
| 27 | ‘ Len and I have always been good mates . |
| 28 | It seems I have always been obsessed with the way I look . |
| 29 | I usually stand up when a lady enters the room ( if the lady in question is one of those battling Berthas from Bermondsey who staff the Informer office , her subsequent confusion delights me ) , and I have always been anxious to place my education and superior talents at the service of the Radical Left . |
| 30 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |