Example sentences of "i have be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often during my varied and extremely active life , I have been overcome with acute nostalgia for Bristol and my University days — truly some of the happiest of my memories . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In my work I have been involved with many families who have needed to arrange a funeral . |
| 4 | I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful . |
| 5 | I have been involved in many cases over the years , but nothing like this one . |
| 6 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I have been involved in detailed talks with Michael Knighton for several days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 10 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 11 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 12 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 13 | And let me say now that I have been impressed by certain of the arguments I have heard here . |
| 14 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 15 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been concerned by some leaks . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 20 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 21 | Just to clarify matters , I have been unemployed since late last year but have budgeted my small income to be able to meet this year 's Governors subscription at the current rates and hopefully any increase that may take effect … |
| 22 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |