Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent .
2 Breeding Goby Cichlids is not easy — it is one of my ambitions and so far I have been unsuccessful .
3 Q. I would like to grow the beautiful Indian fern but so far I have been unsuccessful .
4 I have been discreet , ’ he said tightly .
5 Chairman , er I do n't often disagree with er Mr in front of me there , but I have been consistent in my approach over the years , er , wherever I 've had the had the opportunity to speak at political meetings and ministers have been present .
6 The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it .
7 During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham .
8 I have been fortunate recently to review several well-written books in which the author 's genuine dedication and enthusiasm for his or her subject is obvious and contagious .
9 It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first .
10 During my years at Lancaster I have been fortunate enough to visit many parts of the world as a lecturer .
11 You will soon see that I have been right all this time .
12 She outlined her ideas in her autobiography , I Have Been Young ( 1935 ) .
13 Being Ten Years ' History of the Union of Democratic Control , 1924 , and I Have been Young , 1935 . ]
14 It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim .
15 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 .
16 ‘ Perhaps I have been bored , without realising it . ’
17 I have been selective and , in an attempt to draw out one or two for special note , I have a ‘ Ones to Watch ’ section of interesting titles .
18 I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do .
19 As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’
20 And I am convinced — or rather , I have been convinced — that this felicity is due to the influence of the place in which they were born and in which they have lived all their lives … ’
21 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 .
22 I have been guilty myself of telling electors , sceptical of their power , about how popular resentment brought down ‘ even Walpole ’ and forced a reluctant government into an unwanted war .
23 In the past , I have been guilty of reinforcing this icon ; now I am committed either to destroying it or affecting major reconstructions .
24 The Labour Party in Scotland has failed to deliver ; I have not been betrayed , I have been misguided — and I am certainly not alone .
25 As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour .
26 For most of my time in the House , I have been dissatisfied with them in the same way as I was dissatisfied with private Bills .
27 The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet .
28 Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can
29 I have been delighted by the interest and support of the people of Killyleagh .
30 I have been delighted to have the opportunity to add to what my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon said .
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