Example sentences of "[noun sg] i have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter I have been concerned to draw out some of the implications for socialist politics of the analysis of capitalist property relations given earlier . |
| 2 | In my work I have been involved with many families who have needed to arrange a funeral . |
| 3 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 4 | In my experience as an inspector I have been surprised at the frequency with which there are no or inadequate schemes of work within secondary school departments , with the effect that there is either repetition between the years , or gaps and discontinuities . |
| 5 | The man I have been foolish enough to fall for is incapable of trusting me . ’ |
| 6 | Within a short space I have been concerned to make two basic points in this chapter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since completing this book I have been able to obtain a cutting of rue and test its effect on my own cat . |
| 9 | I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life . |
| 10 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 11 | The assumption behind this critical selectiveness is confirmed by the one exception I have been able to find , in a brief , perverse and witty account of the English novel composed by Ford Madox Ford for American students . |
| 12 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 13 | When I retired four years ago , I decided I would like to help and encourage other people to paint , and hopefully get as much pleasure form the hobby as I do , and since that time I have been able to meet up with groups of friends and pass on to them the knowledge I have gained through the pages of your magazine . |
| 14 | The amount of time I have been able to spend detecting has been hampered , unfortunately , by several setbacks . |
| 15 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 16 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
| 17 | Along with other members of my family I have been able to take a cycle on trains from Edinburgh to Stirling or Dunblane . |