Example sentences of "[pron] have been [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 2 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 3 | You 've been under-strain yourself over these last few weeks . |
| 4 | If she had been Nick she would have cried , or at least put on a hurt face . |
| 5 | Specially trained BT staff will also be on hand to advise those who are suffering from nuisance calls , and it is intended that self-help groups will be set up by people who have been victims themselves . |
| 6 | Ever since the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau there has been art whose aim has been the renewal of society , but it has had no effect beyond that of producing testimonials ( even if controversial ones ) of what we call the ‘ real ’ world , in contrast perhaps with the unreal world of art . |
| 7 | Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised . |
| 8 | There has been research which suggests that moderately strong automatic stemming can be applied in specialized online reference retrieval searching . |
| 9 | Guido released her and stepped away , and where there 'd been warmth there was suddenly coldness . |
| 10 | Where once there had been simplicity there was now multiplicity . |
| 11 | Mia 's lawyer said : ‘ If there had been threats he 'd call the cops . ’ |
| 12 | Secondly , regarding the CTTs , there had been negotiations which he hoped would prove constructive . |
| 13 | There had been poems she had liked . |
| 14 | There have been women I 've liked and respected , but there has been no one I 've loved until this moment . ’ |
| 15 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 16 | We have already mentioned in passing the state policies regarding the arts in Germany , the USSR and China ; there have been writers who followed the party lines by giving attention to those artists favoured by patronage , while neglecting others . |
| 17 | Murray 's apparently effortless escape has caused fury in Australia where there have been claims he must have bribed his way to a low security catagorization |
| 18 | At the same time , however , there have been developments which appear to run in the opposite direction and which reinforce the appearance of employee status . |
| 19 | Unfortunately there have been presenters who became better known for hitting the headlines than their ability to turn washing up bottles into handy household objects . |
| 20 | ‘ During my time at Leeds there have been players who have left the club and some have questioned the wisdom of their departure . |
| 21 | There have been others who have tried to emulate Marlon Brando . |
| 22 | There have been commentators who have said that if it were introduced , it would be much more effective if it were introduced throughout the island . |
| 23 | There have been societies which have managed without a notion of the state and state power . ’ |
| 24 | But in every age there have been poets who were uninterested in thus cutting their poems free of any but a linguistic reality , poets who are ‘ realistic ’ and ‘ mimetic ’ in the most straightforward senses of those two complicated words . |
| 25 | Not only in areas where there have been tips I might add . |
| 26 | There have been evolutionists who have denied that gradualism of this kind is necessary in evolution . |
| 27 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 28 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |
| 29 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 30 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |