Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |
| 32 | ‘ He has been a perfect gentleman , ’ she said quickly . |
| 33 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 34 | In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser . |
| 35 | Far from Mr Atkins being considered the distant , unsympathetic figure depicted in the article , he has been a frequent visitor to the school over the past two years , giving support and advice to help us achieve our aims . |
| 36 | Since August 1991 he has been a key member of the Planning Team preparing for the European Summit Meeting at the Palace on 11 – 12 December 1992 and organising the subsequent reinstatement works . |
| 37 | Tristan Garel-Jones is not a household name but he has been a key player in British , and particularly Tory , politics over the past two years . |
| 38 | He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence . |
| 39 | This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient . |
| 40 | He has been a non-executive director of Dalgety since 1990 . |
| 41 | Since November 1990 he has been a special projects engineer . |
| 42 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
| 43 | He has been a staunch advocate of the open skies policy which has helped to open up regional aviation . |
| 44 | A former chairman of Meirionnydd FUW , he has been a long-serving member of the union 's finance and executive committee and sits on the Meat and Livestock Commission 's sheep technical committee and research and development sub-committee . |
| 45 | He has been a guiding beacon in my professional life and a touchstone of human integrity . |
| 46 | He has been a vocal champion of the occasionally fashionable view that a company should be run in the interests of ‘ stakeholders ’ — its employees , suppliers and customers , and the regions where a company operates . |
| 47 | He has been a longstanding critic of the council , accusing it of failing to support him following his sacking by Stockport HA . |
| 48 | He has been a popular guest in numerous network talkshows , and introduced ZeeBeeCee 's Emmy-award-winning How to Get Rich in 80 Days last year . |
| 49 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 50 | However , since then , Walsh , Gloucestershire 's beneficiary for 1992 , has not only enjoyed the best Test match spell of his career but , in revitalised fashion , he has been the early pace-setter by some margin in the English first-class bowling averages . |
| 51 | One of the most important trends of the past 20 years in HE has been the increased participation of women . |
| 52 | One of the major factors influencing forecasts of the demand for HE has been the social class of the entrant . |
| 53 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
| 54 | Outside the House of Commons , he has been the Scottish editor for the Sunday Times since 1987 . |
| 55 | Chairman Sir Norman Fowler said : ‘ He has been an outstanding member of the Government for a number of years . |
| 56 | He has been an energetic supporter of the democracy movement in China ; and of Hong Kong campaigns to secure right of abode in Britain . |
| 57 | Since 1980 , when he founded his own label , Hannibal Records , he has been an enthusiastic supporter of music from Africa and Eastern Europe , but has still found time to produce albums by mainstream American groups such as REM and 10,000 Maniacs . |
| 58 | He has been an abstract painter and understands the pull of abstraction and the need for decorative patterns and composition . |
| 59 | He has been an outspoken critic of the Squash Rackets Association 's economic stringency at this unsponsored event and made an official complaint about Friday 's referee , Ed Johnson . |
| 60 | Ngugi is unimpressed by much of this ‘ progress ’ ; he has been an outspoken critic of the Kenyan Government and spent time in jail as result . |