Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real discovery for me has been the final item on Disc 1 , the Messe des Pauvres , composed , incredibly , in 1895 . |
| 2 | The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics . |
| 3 | Well yes it is certainly fascinating to hear the views of , of members an and indeed it , it 's tempting to go on I think about or personal experience of floods , but this is not the time or the place I would suggest to do that erm strategic planning seems to me has been the venue for discussions with Southern Water Authority with the National Rivers Authority itself , we are the committee that tries to look many , many years ahead . |
| 4 | Prominent among them has been the thesis of the American sociologist Robert Merton to the effect that the values associated with Protestant asceticism gave a positive stimulus to the practical sciences . |
| 5 | Most significant for them has been the need to adapt to the much greater degree of bureaucratic organization which has followed the 1973 Act , the great landmark in their careers . |
| 6 | All my has been the way it should . |
| 7 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 8 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 9 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 10 | Because I 'd been the butt of her wit she remembered me . |
| 11 | Arnie was ready to take that risk but I was n't : I 'd been the one at London station . |
| 12 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 13 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 14 | Rather unreasonably , I felt somewhat cheated for I had been the one to traipse around the town , forgetting all the preliminary work that others had done ! |
| 15 | I had been the ‘ horse ’ for quite a while . |
| 16 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 17 | I began to wonder whether or not I had been the victim of an extended delusion , which was perhaps the function of an overheated adolescence leading to some kind of psycho-hormonal explosion . |
| 18 | The way he wrote it , I guessed he was as sure as anyone that I had been the trigger man . |
| 19 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 20 | I had been the head of Birkenhead Institute for nearly ten years : a time during which great changes had been introduced , some successful , some less so . |
| 21 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 22 | I 've been the guest of Michael Parkinson , Russell Harty , Des O'Connor , and Gay Byrne on The Late Late Show in Dublin . |
| 23 | After a while I decided it was best to try and help her get on better with her father , and now by interfering between them I 've been the cause of her being kidnapped . |
| 24 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 25 | And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead . |
| 26 | Ever since we met I 've been the target for veiled accusations and suspicions ! |
| 27 | In the four Ryder Cups in which I 've been the Captain Seve has played in every round and I 'm grateful to him for that . |
| 28 | I 've been the top , middle , down bu bunk down . |
| 29 | er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending . |
| 30 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |