Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 2 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 3 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 4 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 5 | Like most therapists , I have been inspired by countless different sources — from metaphysics to Buddhism , from object relations theory to Jung , from Gestalt therapy to psychosynthesis , from mysticism to shamanism . |
| 6 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 7 | If , deep within me , I have been persuaded by early upbringing that sex is evil — or if traumatic experience evokes that feeling — sexuality can never carry its true attraction or satisfaction . |
| 8 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 9 | For over thirty years , along with my fellow teachers , I have been going to educational conferences , and training sessions , and workshops , to hear countless leaders in education talk , as you do , about the dignity of the child , and the importance of individual differences , and of fostering positive self-concepts , and building on the interests of the child , and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear . |
| 10 | Upper Halling has its own team and in its early days this team played in the field opposite the Robin Hood , and I have been told of near carnivals on Sunday afternoons . |
| 11 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 12 | I have been told by Social Security would let me er excuse me talking to me . |
| 13 | I have been told by well-meaning friends that I have a touch of fever … well , so be it ! |
| 14 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 15 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 16 | As it is , I have been forced into positive action , into vitality and life . ’ |
| 17 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 18 | Since this news broke , I have been subjected to numerous snide remarks concerning my ability to spot a footballer when I see one . |
| 19 | Quite apart from the problem of reconciling these propositions with internationally comparative evidence on rises in real wages , increases in the share of wages in national income , and the growth of the service sector , the analysis fails to take account of the skills created by new technology — skills which have been exploited to powerful effect by those who possess and control them . |
| 20 | A rather more realistic approach would be to point out that there are certain conventions which have been imposed by traditional working methods . |
| 21 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 22 | I have listened to fair chunks of the debate tonight , and there can be no doubt whatsoever that considerable complexities need sorting out , many of which have been raised by Conservative Members . |
| 23 | All of us look out on life through personal windows which have been shaped by past experiences . |
| 24 | We have also not mentioned the many different styles of analysis which have been developed for special parameter ranges . |
| 25 | The five examples outlined above illustrate the proliferation of schemes and courses which have been developed for unemployed people in the 1980s . |
| 26 | This is intended to both inform theories of driver behaviour and to provide a realistic applied test of and extension to theories about emotional arousal and memory which have been developed in other areas . |
| 27 | Psychology also draws at times on specific ideas about the human subject which have been developed in philosophical , sociological , and , especially , biological theory . |
| 28 | Improved handling has resulted from a series of innovations most of which have been related to aerodynamic efficiency . |
| 29 | Firstly , the land forces units shown here are those which have been deployed in full or in significant part . |
| 30 | Many cultural historians have too readily appropriated literary writing as cultural documents , subduing the problems about what language actually represents which have been examined by other forms of theoretical inquiry , notably deconstruction . |