Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 2 | I really feel I 'm a Lion in New Zealand now that I have been trampled on , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Dept. , Convocation and alumni to learn that I have been elected Vice-President of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education . |
| 4 | Yeah I , I er thought about self defence but I keep thinking about things like that 's fine but if someone has a knife or a gun , the one might of self defence that I have been trained on or taught in can possibly help and I ca n't really see it as being very very helpful because |
| 5 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 7 | In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised . |
| 8 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 9 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 10 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 11 | ‘ You know that I have been asked to give a course of sermons at St Basil 's ? |
| 12 | Chairman er , I have a petition that I have been asked to present er at what point do you wish me to do that ? |
| 13 | From documents that I have been sent by the senior chief inspector it is clear that the total number of inspectors will be used as follows : 11 will conduct high-profile surveys and focus inspections , six will inspect schools at risk and another 26 will undertake inspections to supplement database evidence . |
| 14 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |
| 15 | After the hearing the woman said : ‘ It 's ridiculous that I have been brought to court . |
| 16 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 17 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |
| 18 | My last migraine of any consequence was over four months ago , but I would not be so brash as to say that I have been cured . |
| 19 | I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’ |
| 20 | I admit that I have been known to curse on occasion and I often talk to my machine telling it ‘ You will not beat me so you 'd better start behaving ! ’ |
| 21 | IF you are a celebrity of some kind then the odds are that you have been asked to endorse a product of some kind . |
| 22 | ‘ You did n't tell him that you have been asked to investigate INCUBUS . |
| 23 | ( Le Carré , 1989:17–18 ) Imagine that you have been asked to translate Le Carré 's novel into your target language . |
| 24 | Imagine that you have been asked to translate the above extract for inclusion in a review of the book , to be published in one of the leading newspapers in your country . |
| 25 | Looking at it another way , imagine that you have been asked to make a bookcase in a craft lesson . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , you should once again proceed with caution if you wish to make any claims on the basis that you have been dismissed . |
| 27 | Even if it is clear that you have been dismissed , the precise date when your employment comes to an end may be unclear . |
| 28 | If this is not permitted by an express ‘ garden leave ’ clause — see Chapter 5 — can you argue that you have been denied ‘ the right to work ’ ? |
| 29 | Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence . |
| 30 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and am pleased to advise that you have been selected for interview . |