Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 2 | In my work I have been involved with many families who have needed to arrange a funeral . |
| 3 | I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful . |
| 4 | I have been involved in many cases over the years , but nothing like this one . |
| 5 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 6 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 7 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been concerned by some leaks . |
| 9 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 10 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 11 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 12 | In 1981 it cut the link between earnings and unemployment benefits and uprated benefits in line with price rather than wage increases ( which have been higher for much of the decade ) . |
| 13 | Recently , they have been subject to many what one might call ‘ extraordinary audits ’ , which have been concerned with these matters . |
| 14 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 15 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 16 | This coincides with the views of some other feminist writers who have been impressed by this distinctively ‘ female ’ contribution to morality . |
| 17 | We hope that part of its brief will be to research the views of children , relatives and adopters who have been involved in both open and more traditional adoptions . |
| 18 | This is particularly true for those with multiple symptoms who have been ill for many years . |
| 19 | In that context I have had to look at the definition of a specific issue order which is contained in section 8(1) of the Act and I know , from talking to those who have been concerned with this Act and are familiar with it , that they have no doubt at all as to what that definition means . |
| 20 | If you are concerned that you might have been exposed to sources of infection , especially if you have been unwell for some time , you can discuss your concerns with your family doctor or antenatal clinic . |
| 21 | So , do n't let me , ever again , hear that you have been impolite to any of the sisters . |
| 22 | If you have been involved in any occult activities in the past then DO N'T PANIC , just read on . |
| 23 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 24 | The second problem that graphics can bring is when you have been active with that 256 greyscale scanner which seemed like such a good idea . |
| 25 | ‘ We have been involved in such a partnership for some years now and the fact that many governors have been accompanied by their head teachers today is an indication of how successful it has been , ’ he added . |
| 26 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 27 | Alex Bell , CastleCourt 's manager , said : ‘ We have been aware of this problem but are satisfied it does apply to us . |
| 28 | ‘ You know , Boyo , this is the start of our fifth day here in Normandy and we have been stuck in these bloody slit trenches having all kinds of shit thrown at us . |
| 29 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 30 | Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel . |