Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been the [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 5 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 11 | In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three . |
| 12 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 13 | ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust . |
| 14 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 15 | I have been the weaker vessel . |
| 16 | Mistake , which has been the central football in this tournament , may however be analysed in a way which is neither exclusively subjectivist nor exclusively objectivist by adopting the synthesist approach immanent in Gordon 's ‘ reasonable man as a test ’ . |
| 17 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 18 | It is important to appreciate that the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 only applies to a dwelling house which has been the matrimonial home ( s1(10) ) . |
| 19 | Witness Poland , which has been the first to recover from three years of relentless slump . |
| 20 | But it is the police crackdown which has been the crucial factor . |
| 21 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |
| 22 | But this is itself dependent upon a number of rather more enduring features , perhaps the most important of which has been the continual growth in demand for overseas holidays despite the deep recession in the economy . |
| 23 | But not four months , which has been the German authorities ' second-thought suggestion , arrived at without the benefit of further evidence — which , indeed , on the general admission of all parties , does not exist . |
| 24 | Albania , which had been the only European non-participant , had expressed its desire to join and was granted observer status at the summit , but on Nov. 20 lodged a formal complaint stating that " the failure of some states to allow a consensus for Albania 's full participation … is incomprehensible " [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ] . |
| 25 | Arms control and related issues were high on the agenda and significant agreement was reached on the status of air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles , which had been the major stumbling blocks in the way of a new strategic arms limitation treaty ( START ) . |
| 26 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 27 | By contrast Sofia , the capital , was the stronghold of the UDF , which comprised some 16 different parties or movements ranging from the environmental group Eco-Glasnost ( which had been the first to oppose the former communist regime — see p. 36980 ) to Podkrepa , the rapidly growing free trade union movement . |
| 28 | Saturated world markets , together with the international embargo against Iraq ( which had been the fifth largest importer of Canadian wheat in 1989 ) , meant , however , that the country 's transport and storage facilities were placed under considerable strain . |
| 29 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 30 | The years 1990 and 1991 had emerged as the warmest ever recorded , outstripping the 1980s , which had been the warmest decade to date . |