Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 3 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 5 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 6 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 7 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them . |
| 8 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 9 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 10 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 11 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 12 | Pat shares some of the problems she has solved and tips she has been given before answering the questions raised at this month 's meeting . |
| 13 | She has been regarded as a patron saint of hares ever since . |
| 14 | Joseph Chamberlain , not Sidney Webb , was the man of her dreams ; but though she has been credited with overcoming romantic desire for the sake of her own independence , it is clear that she desperately wanted him to propose , with her eyes set on his becoming prime minister . |
| 15 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 16 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 17 | She has been recuperating from the shoulder wound at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and had made enough progress to prompt speculation that she might , after all , be fit to defend her French Open title . |
| 18 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 19 | She has been tormented by what has happened . |
| 20 | She carries in her wings great power and mystery even though she has been cast in these Cages for so long . |
| 21 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 22 | To help her in her task , she has been joined by Corinne Hollingworth , a former producer of EastEnders . |
| 23 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 24 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 25 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 26 | After all she has been compared to Monroe , a parallel she does n't argue with although she insists she wo n't get into the same mess as the icon who screwed up her life with an overdose of men , booze and drugs . |
| 27 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 28 | She has been treated in the Royal Alexandra Hospital , Brighton . |
| 29 | She has , you see how she has been pushed into this position . |
| 30 | Bartels has been credited with helping Steffi , 23 , over the past two years in which she has been plagued by illness and unhappiness . |