Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I would like to hear from women who are now or who have been involved in prostitution .
2 Where there have been mutual credits , debts or other mutual dealings between a company before it goes into liquidation and any other creditors , Rule 4.90 provides that account should be taken of what is due from each party , and the sums due from one shall be set off against the sums due from the other .
3 This is a direct and primary liability , though after an assignment it is normally accompanied by rights of indemnity against the first assignee , and also , where there have been further assignments , against the assignee in whom the lease is for the time being vested .
4 The cultural specialization which is also present , with varying degrees of difficulty , in these especially physical forms is usually more of a problem in at least some music , where there have been some very radical divergences in systems and in instruments .
5 They can not compete within the visible spectrum , but they will be highly competitive throughout the infrared and perhaps also in the ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions , where there have been several significant developments recently .
6 The office is one workplace where there have been few major changes — the ball-point pen and the photocopier hardly qualify as major — in half a century , since telephones took over .
7 Where there have been previous claims on the policy .
8 However , there are always attendant risks with taking people out of an environment where they have been successful and moving them , mid-career , into a completely different style and sector and trying to make them successful there .
9 Productivity-enhancing research and development in many lesser developed countries have often been harmful , where they have been accessible to farmers of those areas .
10 Either they have been slobby , and it has eventually got depressing having to argue the case for owning a toothbrush ; or they have been scrupulous — in which case I have started longing for a bit more rough-and-readiness .
11 The only enjoyable memory that I have is that of the instructor , a tall man with dark hair and a quiet nature vault a large gate in one bound and coming sprinting towards me to see what was the matter .
12 Dagenham boss John Still said : ‘ That was the best match that I have been involved with in 14 years of management .
13 Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can
14 The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet .
15 And let me say now that I have been impressed by certain of the arguments I have heard here .
16 Kindly note that I have been specific on the daily to do list .
17 You will soon see that I have been right all this time .
18 Now that I have been honest with you . ’
19 The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it .
20 I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run .
21 And it is only fairly recently — probably since my mother 's death — that I have been able to abandon the naive belief that such an apparently ‘ perfect ’ relationship is indicative of a good marriage .
22 A fortnight later , W. & R. Chambers placed an advertisement in the Edinburgh Evening Co it rant ( the first of its kind that I have been able to find in the local press ) , reading : " Printing : wanted : young women of good education and character , to act as compositors " .
23 ‘ I suppose I have learned that I have been able to survive an experience such as this , which certainly I would not have bet on myself to do .
24 But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground .
25 –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give .
26 ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give .
27 The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’
28 I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses .
29 That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’
30 Give my respect and thanks to the author , whose novel is the first English one and the French are only romances now , that I have been able to read for many a day .
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