Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] has [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is Mr Anka Singh who has been in coaching for many years , running the Golden Sunset minibus hire company . |
| 2 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 3 | Herrmann , a Wharton MBA who has been with Solbourne for the better part of a year , has a components background , having previously run Amphenol in Hong Kong . |
| 4 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 5 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 6 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 7 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 8 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 9 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 10 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 11 | Coupled to that the er , sort of the statutory protection which has been in existence for er , workers for many years in some cases is , is being whittled away . |
| 12 | The site is commercial woodland which has been on the market for two years . |
| 13 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 14 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 15 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 16 | Paul is happy enough , but he has a dream which has been with him since he was a teenager . |
| 17 | We apply such a combination here to an issue which has been of central interest to urban sociology : the state , its concentration of power , and its relation to people 's daily lives . |
| 18 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 19 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 20 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 21 | The decision ends a seven-month wait to settle the issue at the home which has been at the centre of allegations of declining standards . |
| 22 | The department , headed by Mr Jeff Barker who has been at the University for 27 years , caters for the two dining rooms at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , serving breakfast and dinner to the 400 students Monday to Friday , breakfast and lunch Saturday and Sunday . |
| 23 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , was faced with demands yesterday to release from prison a campaigner for Sikh independence who has been under threat of deportation to India . |
| 24 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 25 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
| 26 | Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you . |
| 27 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 28 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 29 | And from the moment Mr Weintraub saw him in Spain he has been in someone 's company twenty-four hours a day . |
| 30 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |