Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairs were designed to complement the table and represent one set of variations on a chair design that I have been experimenting with for years . |
| 2 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 3 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 4 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ That said , I must say I am extremely pessimistic about the future of the plant , given all that I have been hearing these last few days . ’ |
| 6 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 7 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 9 | I really feel I 'm a Lion in New Zealand now that I have been trampled on , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 11 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 12 | ‘ I see you are determined to prove your assertion that I have been wasting my time . |
| 13 | Dept. , Convocation and alumni to learn that I have been elected Vice-President of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education . |
| 14 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 15 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 16 | Yeah I , I er thought about self defence but I keep thinking about things like that 's fine but if someone has a knife or a gun , the one might of self defence that I have been trained on or taught in can possibly help and I ca n't really see it as being very very helpful because |
| 17 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 18 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |
| 19 | You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values . |
| 20 | My excuse for this lengthy and amateur digression into history is that I have been trying to show how I think geology got into the hands of the theoreticians who were conditioned by the social and political history of their day more than by observations in the field . |
| 21 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 22 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 23 | In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised . |
| 24 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you suggesting , sir , that I have been shirking my duties ? |
| 28 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 29 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 30 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |