Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 2 | ‘ You do not know what my life has been these last ten years with him . |
| 3 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |
| 4 | Since her return to England , her existence had been little more than a living nightmare . |
| 5 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 6 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 7 | Their complaint has been that , so far at least , the market mechanism has not proved effective for such large volumes — British Steel , for example , spends £100 million annually on electricity , and ICI accounts for 2%-3% of all consumption in the UK . |
| 8 | After all the speculation about the possible disagreements between them , their encounter has been little short of anodyne . |
| 9 | In the past , respect and awe for their mother have been enough to ensure that her children toed the line , and for her part the Queen always held out hope that their difficulties would be resolved . |
| 10 | Clarissa 's flat was on the eighth floor and its acquisition had been another good thing that summer . |
| 11 | When he was young his hair had been that flaxen gold too , as soft and as fine . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State has pretensions as a political heavyweight , but his performances have been more of a light banterweight . |
| 13 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 14 | When Roosevelt had been persuaded by the British , in July 1942 , to postpone a direct invasion of Western Europe and instead to prepare an invasion of North Africa , one of his conditions had been that Free France should be excluded . |
| 15 | The Ministry policeman who checked his I/D had been another one of those patronising cretins who had obviously too soon forgotten the massive two fingers dealt them by the S.A.S. His raincoat was wringing wet , and he was drenched , when he stepped off the minibus outside H area . |
| 16 | His evasion of her sensible scheme for his comfort had been another repulse . |
| 17 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 18 | The original environment of human evolutionary adaptedness can not be clearly defined because our evolution has been such an extraordinary progression of expansive diversifications in adapting to an immense range of environments . |