Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the space of four weeks , not only has the car been broken into , but the Health Centre has been robbed of computer hardware for our new cardiovascular screening programme , I have been threatened with violence in my consulting-room for refusing to prescribe opiates and my home has been burgled at 5.00 am by a seventeen-year-old wielding a club hammer . |
| 2 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |
| 3 | I have been influenced in thinking about the comparative element in these chapters by Dickens et al. |
| 4 | In this respect , I have been influenced by the success of Proposition 13 enacted in California in 1978 , which necessitated a sharp reduction in property taxes . |
| 5 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 6 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 7 | I have been dragged into my own book against my will . |
| 8 | I 'm not quite sure why I have been summoned to the Home Office . " |
| 9 | I have been done over in the street . |
| 10 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been inundated with complaints from local people who feel this ‘ over-the-top ’ action will only play into the hands of loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 12 | but I have been led in my experience to believe that they possess a natural intelligence and character which if properly guided and consistently handled should lead them to play a useful part in the synthesis of tribal life in Kenya … as a factor for stability in political development … |
| 13 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 14 | [ Oh , by the way , I have been chased by wolves on two occasions . |
| 15 | The topic returns to the forefront of attention in the final chapter , in which I discuss the very possibility of the enterprise I have been engaged in for the previous fourteen . |
| 16 | I have always thought that we entered the ERM at a rate of exchange that was much too high , and I have been reinforced in this view by Britain 's poor showing in international trade during the past 18 months . |
| 17 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 18 | David Jordan will be in charge of the inter-divisional competition for the George Wood Cup , which I have been assured by Conor Massey , is in the safe hands of George and Sheila Rose . |
| 19 | I have been employed in the hotel and catering industry for 12 years . |
| 20 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 21 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 22 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 23 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
| 24 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 25 | Each year I have been struck by the repetition of the same pattern of reactions . |
| 26 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 27 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 28 | I have been assisted by Mr. James Munby , appearing for the Official Solicitor as amicus curiae . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been savaged by love , ’ she would declaim , when she 'd had a few . |
| 30 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |