Example sentences of "[pron] has been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme opens with While Shepherds Watched sung to the tune of ‘ On Ilkley Moor Bah't 'At ’ , and an interview with the man who has been Santa Claus to generations of children travelling on the Worth Valley Railway 's ‘ Santa Specials ’ : Jack Rowell , who lives on the railway in the Station House overlooking its terminus at Oxenhope . |
| 2 | Since 1986 she has been Cavan District Secretary . |
| 3 | Beth Macdougall ( below ) has left Hodder , where she has been publicity director for the fiction and paperback lists . |
| 4 | Suffice to say , however , that there has been noise deletion ( pertaining to the surface noise from both lacquer and tape masters ) and there has been adjustment of level by way of compensation . |
| 5 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 6 | In hotels and catering , which also falls into the category of a " traditional " temporary working sector , there has been union opposition to temporary working based on fears that casual workers were displacing regular staff [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 7 | Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole . |
| 8 | ‘ There has been practice development activity for a long time within the bureau . |
| 9 | He has been Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk since 1978 , and lord lieutenants are guaranteed a seat in the emergency underground seats of government . |
| 10 | A member of Reading & Leighton Park Canoe Club , he has been Publicity Officer for the Devizes to Westminster Race , Treasurer of the Marathon Committee and Southern Region Secretary . |
| 11 | He has been branch representative in most of the branches in which he has worked . |
| 12 | He has been branch representative in most branches in which he has worked and an Area Council member for 15 years . |
| 13 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 14 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 15 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 16 | In the five years since , he has been world champion three times , but the British Open has eluded him . |
| 17 | He has been Group Chief Executive of Cadbury Schweppes since 1984 and will shortly become Chairman . |
| 18 | He joins the company from the Wellcome Foundation Limited , where he has been Group Risk and Insurance Manager for eleven years . |
| 19 | He has been an Honorary Officer since holding the position of Honorary Treasurer for a year in 1984/85 and since then he has been Northern Ireland Special Representative . |
| 20 | It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of it has been Sunday League stuff — and that is with due respect to anyone in the Sunday League . |
| 22 | In recent years it has been Ian Rush who has been the scourge of Everton but this time he turned provider to send the Israeli international through a dumbfounded Everton defence . |
| 23 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 24 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 25 | ‘ It has been Ivy week , ’ wrote Elizabeth . |
| 26 | In Britain , it has been trade unions , rather than manufacturers , purchasers and governments , who have taken the initiative in discussing the ergonomic design and installation of VDUs . |
| 27 | He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) . |
| 28 | For six weeks it has been pitch black . |
| 29 | It has been market practice in asset-backed transactions for there to be a mechanism whereby transactions can be mopped up when the balance of performing assets falls below a given level , usually 10% of initial principal . |