Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to hear from women who are now or who have been involved in prostitution . |
| 2 | Where there have been mutual credits , debts or other mutual dealings between a company before it goes into liquidation and any other creditors , Rule 4.90 provides that account should be taken of what is due from each party , and the sums due from one shall be set off against the sums due from the other . |
| 3 | Where there have been previous claims on the policy . |
| 4 | However , there are always attendant risks with taking people out of an environment where they have been successful and moving them , mid-career , into a completely different style and sector and trying to make them successful there . |
| 5 | Productivity-enhancing research and development in many lesser developed countries have often been harmful , where they have been accessible to farmers of those areas . |
| 6 | Either they have been slobby , and it has eventually got depressing having to argue the case for owning a toothbrush ; or they have been scrupulous — in which case I have started longing for a bit more rough-and-readiness . |
| 7 | Dagenham boss John Still said : ‘ That was the best match that I have been involved with in 14 years of management . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 10 | And let me say now that I have been impressed by certain of the arguments I have heard here . |
| 11 | Kindly note that I have been specific on the daily to do list . |
| 12 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 13 | Now that I have been honest with you . ’ |
| 14 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 15 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 16 | And it is only fairly recently — probably since my mother 's death — that I have been able to abandon the naive belief that such an apparently ‘ perfect ’ relationship is indicative of a good marriage . |
| 17 | A fortnight later , W. & R. Chambers placed an advertisement in the Edinburgh Evening Co it rant ( the first of its kind that I have been able to find in the local press ) , reading : " Printing : wanted : young women of good education and character , to act as compositors " . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose I have learned that I have been able to survive an experience such as this , which certainly I would not have bet on myself to do . |
| 19 | But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground . |
| 20 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 21 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 22 | The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’ |
| 23 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 24 | That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’ |
| 25 | Give my respect and thanks to the author , whose novel is the first English one and the French are only romances now , that I have been able to read for many a day . |
| 26 | They precept on the constituent district councils and they receive direct grant from Government and the problems encountered in Derbyshire where the county council reduced the budget approved by the police authority have been quite eliminated and that My Lords is the only reasons that I have been able to trace so far for amending the law as this Bill proposes . |
| 27 | I have lost so many big barbel on the Hampshire Avon , Dorset Stour , and the Severn through this that I have been ready to dispense altogether with swimfeeder fishing for big barbel . |
| 28 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 29 | I say that I have been sick with flu . |
| 30 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |