Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding . |
2 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
3 | by that time I 'd been involved with . |
4 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
5 | When I was a postgraduate student , for example , I was about to embark on a research project on a topic I 'd been involved in for many years . |
6 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
7 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
8 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
9 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
10 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
11 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
12 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
13 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
14 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
15 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
16 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
17 | But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’ |
18 | You see , I 'd been accustomed to the guided progression of the last comfortable years at school . |
19 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
20 | At first , when I did , I thought it was purely a physical dependence I 'd been afraid of , because I was so slow to understand . |
21 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
22 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
23 | I 'd been lucky to book one of the two wheelchair spaces with adjacent seats for my family for last Saturday 's final night of the spectacular Robin of Sherwood musical . |
24 | Maybe I 'd been wrong about Bonanza after all . |
25 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
26 | Earlier in the day , I had been close to despair . |
27 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
28 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
29 | As chairman , I had been involved in its capital reconstruction and ultimate sale to Trafalgar House . |
30 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |