Example sentences of "i have [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 3 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have been the weaker vessel . |
| 14 | One day we went for a tour around the mill and the lasting memory that I have is the terrible clattering of the looms and the speed at which the never idle operators worked to ensure that their piece of material was faultless . |