Example sentences of "he has [be] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He has been a managing director since 1986 and Deputy Chairman since 1990 . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would have liked to be here this evening because I know well that he has been a tremendous support to my hon. and learned Friend and his family in many small and touching ways , which I know have been deeply appreciated . |
| 3 | He has been a fantastic friend helping me with financial work . ’ |
| 4 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 5 | He has been a consistent advocate of ensuring that the law of the land is adhered to . |
| 6 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 7 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |
| 8 | ‘ He has been a perfect gentleman , ’ she said quickly . |
| 9 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 10 | In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient . |
| 16 | He has been a non-executive director of Dalgety since 1990 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He has been a staunch advocate of the open skies policy which has helped to open up regional aviation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He has been a guiding beacon in my professional life and a touchstone of human integrity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He has been a longstanding critic of the council , accusing it of failing to support him following his sacking by Stockport HA . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One of the most important trends of the past 20 years in HE has been the increased participation of women . |
| 27 | One of the major factors influencing forecasts of the demand for HE has been the social class of the entrant . |
| 28 | Outside the House of Commons , he has been the Scottish editor for the Sunday Times since 1987 . |
| 29 | Chairman Sir Norman Fowler said : ‘ He has been an outstanding member of the Government for a number of years . |
| 30 | He has been an energetic supporter of the democracy movement in China ; and of Hong Kong campaigns to secure right of abode in Britain . |