Example sentences of "[noun pl] i have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the general run of life in a river this may be very true , but many times I have been able to take barbel and chub from the same swim simply by altering the depth at which my bait is fishing . |
| 5 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 6 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 7 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 8 | Over the years the G M B has been a major part of our family life the night meetings sometimes being away from home the disputes I have been involved in you have shared them with me and listened to me , and because of my involvement you have always supported me . |
| 9 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 10 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 11 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 12 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 13 | ‘ Many months I have been saving , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 15 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 16 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 19 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 20 | In fact in recent visits to schools I have been struck increasingly , not only by the ‘ over-age ’ children but by the considerable number of very young ones , conveniently parked in classrooms so that mothers could take employment , trade or visit . |
| 21 | I will concentrate , together with my wife , on areas I have been dealing in and know well , such as Expressionism , Viennese Art before 1914 , with Schiele and Klimt , history-making design and outstanding drawings and watercolours . |
| 22 | Thank you that the painful experiences I have been through are no surprise to you . |
| 23 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 24 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 25 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 26 | So I think we geologists should not be too bashful to theorise on the basis of purely geological evidence , and I can not avoid the conclusion that at least some of the enigmas I have been discussing may have an origin in the climate . |
| 27 | The American naturalist William T. Hornaday gives this excellent description of the reptile : ‘ Gharials are the smoothest of all the large crocodiles I have been privileged to handle . |
| 28 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 29 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 30 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |