Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People I have worked with I 've identified as having problems that I can see some sort solution to in terms , for instance , of hospital treatment erm at times I 've been unable to erm to do that because the Act is very difficult to work round erm and in retrospect I 'm very |
| 2 | In the general run of life in a river this may be very true , but many times I have been able to take barbel and chub from the same swim simply by altering the depth at which my bait is fishing . |
| 3 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 4 | Over the years the G M B has been a major part of our family life the night meetings sometimes being away from home the disputes I have been involved in you have shared them with me and listened to me , and because of my involvement you have always supported me . |
| 5 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 6 | My Lords i in the eighteen months I 've been privileged to be a Member of Lordships House , I 've often asked myself what our functions are . |
| 7 | During the previous six months I had been able to keep a more watchful eye on the whereabouts of the elusive Charlie , thanks to the help of a young officer Daphne had introduced me to who worked in the War Office . |
| 8 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 9 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Months we 've been open , and not one enquiry , and the minute we do get one we ca n't take her in ! |
| 11 | ‘ We were granted ownership of the building in March and in just three months we have been able to get it ready . ’ |
| 12 | By constantly shuffling alliances with smaller satellite parties they have been able to prevent the left from taking office . |
| 13 | In some districts it has been impossible to make it available to everyone . |
| 14 | A company 's competitive position no longer ( solely ) depends on its internal capabilities ; it also depends on the type of relationships it has been able to establish with other firms and the scope of those relationships . |
| 15 | A statement by the provisional government of Eritrea on Aug. 1 said that over 82,000 prisoners of war and former government officials , and over 43,000 of their relatives , had been repatriated from Eritrea ; it said that in view of severe food shortages it had been impossible to feed them . |
| 16 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 17 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 18 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 19 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 20 | For several months it has been obvious that the oil market is , as Joseph Stanislaw of Cambridge Energy Research Associates puts it , long on crude . |
| 21 | Now , I mean there 's no way they can say the money does n't go in and the last couple of months it 's been nine hundred and fifty pound , rather than seven hundred and fifty ! |
| 22 | And I think that we are very lucky in the very high calibre of non-executive directors we 've been able to attract . |
| 23 | Without such models it has been difficult to determine what the properties of these cortical areas should be . |
| 24 | Another strength of the initiative has been the sophisticated analyses it has been able to produce . |
| 25 | At some exceptional sites it has been necessary to reconstruct part of the site and the finds for display in order that they should be fully understood by visitors . |
| 26 | ‘ Steve , one of the reasons you 've been quiet with me lately — ’ more than quiet , she thought , stone-cold , dead to me' — one of the reasons has been Joe , has n't it ? |
| 27 | And just finally on the Mr are you able to put an approximate number , er figure to the number of such operations you 've been involved in ? |
| 28 | It had felt like a game of hide-and-seek , and Shiona , though at times she had been terrified of losing him , had thoroughly enjoyed the drive . |
| 29 | Six weeks I 've been ill . |
| 30 | The American naturalist William T. Hornaday gives this excellent description of the reptile : ‘ Gharials are the smoothest of all the large crocodiles I have been privileged to handle . |