Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real discovery for me has been the final item on Disc 1 , the Messe des Pauvres , composed , incredibly , in 1895 . |
| 2 | The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics . |
| 3 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 4 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 5 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 6 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 7 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 8 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 9 | er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending . |
| 10 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 11 | In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three . |
| 12 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 13 | ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust . |
| 14 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 15 | I have been the weaker vessel . |
| 16 | He had wanted children for years : not having them had been the one drawback to marrying late . |
| 17 | She has been the Great North Run winner in 1990 and 1991 as well as the British track holder at all distances from 100m to 800 . |
| 18 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 19 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 20 | You 've been the one person in my life who has really influenced my art . ’ |
| 21 | You 've been the very opery since we left Kilkeel . ’ |
| 22 | But wherever they had gone , she had been the perfect companion : enthusiastic , amusing and loving . |
| 23 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 24 | She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time . |
| 25 | In fact she had been the powerful sustaining force for as long as he could remember . |
| 26 | She had been the only passenger to alight from the two carriage train which she could still hear dimly in the distance , chuffing its way over the Severn Bridge on its way to Lydney . |
| 27 | She had been the only one to choose a piece from Alice in Wonderland . |
| 28 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 29 | Aleksandra Biryukova retired as a Deputy Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers ( in which she had been the only woman out of 69 members ) and as Chair of the Bureau for Social Development on Sept. 17 . |
| 30 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |