Example sentences of "[adj] i have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ‘ I hope that what little I have been able to do will enable others to benefit , ’ said Christine . |
| 2 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 3 | How generous I have been with my genius . |
| 4 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 5 | Although , when he had got it off his chest , he confessed that ‘ I am afraid I have been rather carried away ’ . |
| 6 | I now realize just how much I have been professionally sustained , over many years , by his example and how much I learnt from his convictions . |
| 7 | ‘ I can tell you , I never lose sight of just how lucky I have been . |
| 8 | Although a couple of the other demonstrators also looked promising I have been unable to take them any further because of financial constraints . |
| 9 | I rise to break my Trappist vow of six years to say how honoured and privileged I have been to attend and take part in this debate . |
| 10 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 11 | Since I came , I have tasted all I have been asked to . |
| 12 | The patterns of public accountability in the British constitutional set-up are extremely complex , and all I have been able to do here is to alert you to some key issues of relevance to the subject matter of this book . |
| 13 | All I have been able to find out is that he was a remote father . |
| 14 | All I have been saying is the things which are n't Kathy 's |
| 15 | Like many I have supported this union 's policy my C L P , but also like many I have been hurt and angered by the attempts of some of the Party , both nationally and locally to deride and belittle the unions as a thing of the past and not relevant to the Party 's new media image and that working class issues were not worth presenting at elections because they are unpopular with the tabloids . |
| 16 | Since the age of 5 I have been going to Highfield , my sister was 6 and my brother was 8 . |
| 17 | ‘ At Manchester United I have been top of the table in April and still lost it . |
| 18 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 19 | As you are aware I have been exploring ways in which the Regional Council can try to encourage investment by the private sector in the provision of new industrial land and buildings . |
| 20 | Since 1988 I have been working with Oxford and Jericho Against the Poll Tax and am now participating in a scheme , devised by Oxford Quakers and the Green Party , to pay the tax as a group , according to one 's means : ie. a local income tax . |
| 21 | I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor . |