Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No relation and it 's not the fella who 's been to Memphis Tennessee to see Graceland either . |
| 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 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The site is commercial woodland which has been on the market for two years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 12 | Paul is happy enough , but he has a dream which has been with him since he was a teenager . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | recent years by the introduction of the statutory right for any council to spend up to the product of a 2p rate on any matter which the council itself considers is for the benefit of the area or part of the area , or all or some of the inhabitants . |
| 18 | However , if you train with a coach who 's been under pressure conditions , it can make a difference in your own performance . ’ |
| 19 | Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He gives terrible parties up there — I know a girl who 's been to them . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A cyclist who 's been in prison in Nepal for over a month could be freed later this week . |
| 28 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 29 | They have managed to do this without losing the original character of the building ; marble fireplaces , Victorian and Georgian chests , a collection of clocks and a grand piano which has been in the house since the turn of the century , all seem to be very much at home here . |
| 30 | As in all things , you have a team which has been with you for many years ? |