Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm sorry I 've been so dreary lately , " she said . |
| 2 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor Dora , I 'm afraid I 've been rather beastly to her . |
| 4 | The closeness had somehow died , but apart from this she 'd been so sure there was much he could tell her . |
| 5 | I usually am at the end of the week , and this one has been particularly tough . |
| 6 | In the difficult economic climate of the 1970s and 80s there have been more frequent cries from industry for assistance , which States have not always resisted in their desire to minimise the disruptive effects of economic change . |
| 7 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 8 | To get a different view , and yet I it 's been very interesting it 's been very interesting |
| 9 | That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect . |
| 10 | But in their mind 's eye , audiences were convinced she had been virtually naked throughout . |
| 11 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 12 | She said she was sorry she 'd been so cross about Timothy Gedge . |
| 13 | How cold she have been so callous as to forget Berenice 's unborn baby ? |
| 14 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 15 | The Board created a new Marketing Department in June 1992 which has been very active in seeking input to our awards from our overseas partners in education . |
| 16 | All in all it had been very enjoyable . |
| 17 | various bits and pieces and er they 're coming back tomorrow night to collect it all it 's been quite interesting . |
| 18 | ‘ This time , a far bigger bite was taken and even those which have been relatively stable for a number of years have been damaged . |
| 19 | In this section only the most successful techniques for common sedimentary minerals are given , with an emphasis on those which have been recently refined . |
| 20 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 21 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 22 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 23 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 24 | I asked him if the fundamental problem is that those who have are too selfish to help . |
| 25 | I suspect that higher amounts of compensation have been paid to those who have been allegedly ill-treated by the state than to the victims of terrorism in the Province . |
| 26 | There are also those who have been rather self-sufficient all their lives , who really like living alone , enjoying their own company and quiet pursuits . |
| 27 | Among the thirty-eight who had been politically active , there were more than twice as many Conservatives as anything else — nineteen were Tories , seven Liberal and eight Labour . |
| 28 | There will be found a wealth of information in all kinds of forms — from details of sites which have been excavated and studied , to actual examples of materials used , given that they have been sufficiently durable as to survive . |
| 29 | but that four , that four point five we had was plenty warm |
| 30 | In general we have been most successful with pupils excluded from other schools and returning from special provision . |