Example sentences of "[pron] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 3 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 4 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 5 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 6 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 7 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 8 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 9 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 10 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 11 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 12 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 13 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 14 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |
| 15 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 16 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 17 | I have been Havelock Blaine 's mistress since he was turned twenty-one , nine years ago . |
| 18 | My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban . |
| 19 | But their have been failings of the system have n't there , I mean there have been occasions |
| 20 | Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands . |
| 21 | Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries . |
| 22 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 23 | And most shops in the region are now dusting off the platform shoes and diamante brooches , which have been centre of the autumn collections of the last 50 years . |
| 24 | There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 26 | All of which have been precision engineered to last a lifetime . |
| 27 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 28 | Call upon Councillor to move a motion , details of which have been circulation . |
| 29 | The miners ' strike revealed the range of new movements and organisations which have been arenas , if complex and contradictory , for the development of working-class culture and working-class consciousness , promising to broaden traditional conceptions of the composition and objectives of the labour movement yet also portraying the unions ' capacity to ignore that potential when it stepped beyond the domestic and controllable to stake its own claims for recognition . |
| 30 | As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle . |