Example sentences of "he have been [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 2 | He has been similarly evasive in answering questions about his marital fidelity and marijuana use . |
| 3 | He has been particularly keen on educational pursuits . |
| 4 | He has been most generous in giving way . |
| 5 | Not to mention the fact that he has been conspicuously faithless to me . |
| 6 | But as a master of the ‘ sound bite ’ quote he has been surprisingly unconvincing in this campaign . |
| 7 | He has been primarily responsible for the current European Union Treaty ( EUT ) which has effectively distilled a political idea into political practice . |
| 8 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 9 | The writer of this book has to confess that so far he has been so hidebound by tradition that he has not yet brought himself to write key-signatures for the horns , but he admits that the only argument in favour of this is that the lack of signature acts as a guide to the conductor 's eye in spotting the horn parts in the score . |
| 10 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 11 | ‘ They spent all last winter getting the horse to switch off and he has been more relaxed with each race this season . ’ |
| 12 | ’ N'Grabbit depressed a button on the unit she held in her hand and a new graphic merged with the first ‘ … you can see that he has been somewhat over-confident in his predictions . |
| 13 | The writer would like to express his appreciation of the art historical studies of Teresa Gisbert , Leopoldo Castedo , Julia P. Herzberg and dr Luis Enrique Tord , to which he has been deeply indebted in writing this article . |
| 14 | He has been entirely responsible for the administration of the school … he will be very difficult to replace . ’ |
| 15 | As chairman of Igedo , operator of the Dusseldorf fashion fairs , and undoubtedly a prime mover in German fashion , he has been sufficiently aware of its creative vacuum to propose establishing an institutionalised incubator to nurture young design talent . |
| 16 | ‘ He has been really good for her soul , ’ says one of her colleagues . |
| 17 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 18 | Certainly , there is a feeling that while he has been highly successful in forging a strong team at head office out of civil servants , health service professionals and other outsiders ( and in convincing ministers at the same time ) , generating stout loyalty there in the process , away from St Andrew 's House there are many complaints of being side-lined , overruled and ignored . |
| 19 | He was only thirteen and he 'd been particularly close to his mother . |
| 20 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 21 | He 'd been so adamant in Vienna about not looking ridiculous with the ‘ fat old Frau ’ and now he was suggesting productions that were totally unsuitable . |
| 22 | He 'd been so sickly from birth and Sarah ached with sadness to see her tiny stepbrother losing hold on life . |
| 23 | And that was why he 'd been so bitter on the subject of rings . |
| 24 | I 'm not yet sorting out exactly why but within half-a-minute of my arriving here he 'd been extremely rude to me as well … ’ |
| 25 | On his last quick visit he 'd been more interested in the situation than in the fittings . |
| 26 | Mind , that did n't mean he was n't a kind bloke , he 'd been very kind to her . |
| 27 | He 'd been very careful about that . |
| 28 | Until now the possibility had n't occurred to Godolphin — he 'd been too preoccupied by the secret that he 'd lived with most of his adult life — but it was an intriguing , and disturbing , thought . |
| 29 | Or else he 'd been too afraid of the answer . |
| 30 | He 'd been damned rude to her the night before , not to say insulting . |