Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 2 | I have also been criticized fiercely by philosophers for using imaginary time . |
| 3 | I have also been invited to take up my abode at Government House during Lady F 's absence at Macquarie . |
| 4 | I have also been asked whether it would be possible to make partial exemption orders under section 48(1) of the Shops Act . |
| 5 | I have also been asked to pass on the request of one of the nearby residents for the latch to be replaced on the playing field gates . |
| 6 | I have also been recommended Zanzibar , but that is going to cost a great deal of money , and likewise the journey there and back will occupy much valuable time . |
| 7 | I have also been told I am photogenic and I love anything to do with hair and make-up . |
| 8 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 9 | I have also been interviewed on trains and on a cross-channel ferry about my travel habits . |
| 10 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 11 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 15 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 16 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |
| 17 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I have nearly been killed through having to walk on to the road to see whether it is clear , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 20 | ‘ I have already been asked that question several times under druggings of Veritas . |
| 21 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 22 | He continued : ‘ I have already been slated over and over again by local climbers for putting bolts into the rock face at Land 's End , but this is the way forward ; of that I have no doubt . |
| 23 | ‘ I have already been told I will need an operation and it is going to take some time to sort out my problem . |
| 24 | I have frequently been bothered by Maazel 's work on record for all sorts of reasons , but here he sounds thoroughly absorbed in the proceedings . |
| 25 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 26 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 27 | Nevertheless I have since been informed by Richard Buckley that ( if the concept is not entirely meaningless in the circumstances ) the Co-op gives ‘ the best value for money ’ , in terms of materials used in their coffins and the general finish and quality of the handles and name-plate etc . |
| 28 | After establishing myself in the team I have only been dropped once , that was by John Duncan and I deserved it . ’ |
| 29 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |
| 30 | I have now been retired for nearly five and a half years . |