Example sentences of "and has [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Born in 1896 , he joined Purdey 's in 1918 and has been with them ever since . |
| 32 | But she 's about forty and has been with the company ages . ’ |
| 33 | 37426 was recently overhauled in Glasgow Eastfield and has been with Petroleum and Regional Railways . |
| 34 | After spending some time at 's at Mundford , transferred to Eagle Mill in the early '70s and has been with us ever since . |
| 35 | Jeff works in the dyehouse and has been with the company for ten years . |
| 36 | Janet works in the Sales Office on Customer Service and has been with the company for two and half years . |
| 37 | The show was commissioned by the Rochdale Art Gallery in 1987 , staged there in '89 and has been on the road since then . |
| 38 | Asprey , 5p higher at 290p , is flush with cash and has been on an acquisitions spree in the last 15 months . |
| 39 | Howard , from Liverpool , has an England record of 20 Tests , officiated in both World Cups and has been on the panel for nine years . |
| 40 | Transracial adoption , the adoption of children by parents of different racial origin , developed in earnest in the mid-1960s and has been on the increase since then . |
| 41 | USL has been courted by other attractive suitors , and has been on track to an initial public offering . |
| 42 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 43 | The Longhope boat , the David and Elizabeth King , E B , is a solent class self righting lifeboat and has been on station since nineteen seventy . |
| 44 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 45 | ‘ Yes , New Zealand is now a dominion too , and has been since September . |
| 46 | Romero is a provincial film-maker by choice and has been since the 1960s , long before this was common — if indeed it is even now , despite the growth of independent film-making and its important contribution to the artistically enfeebled Hollywood mainstream . |
| 47 | The Welsh Office Education Department is responsible ( and has been since 1970 ) for schools and further and higher education in Wales , but not universities or the qualifications , probation , pay , superannuation or misconduct of teachers , which remain the responsibility of the DES . |
| 48 | The use has led to further commercialism of the land and has been to the detriment of the rural character of the area , they say . |
| 49 | Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales . |
| 50 | The resulting report was most constructive and has been of significant value in defining the Group 's plan of action in relation to HS&E initiatives . |
| 51 | Methodism has made a very rapid progress , and has been of no trifling service in diverting the attention of these sons of darkness from their present condition to the glories of the life to come . |
| 52 | He had an accident at work and has been off work for two weeks . |
| 53 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 54 | An interim restraining order was placed on him and has been under appeal . |
| 55 | Firstly , er , I could assure the committee that the working party on provision of secondary and primary places which is published by the education committee , is taking the auditor 's report very seriously , and has been through it in detail , and has er , drawn up a programme of , of analysis , erm , over the next few months , very much taking into account the district auditor 's comments . |
| 56 | Of the two , Mr Yates , who will be 81 in November and has been in Congress almost without a break since he was first elected in 1948 , had the easier time of it . |
| 57 | Leaving aside positions like the Earl Marshal , which is largely concerned with organizing coronations and state funerals , and has been in the Duke of Norfolk 's family since 1672 , the court is knitted together by blood and marriage . |
| 58 | At this village off the A40 south of Fishguard is the Tregwynt Woollen Mill , which dates from the middle of the eighteenth century and has been in continuous production of woollen yarns since then . |
| 59 | This series , with accompanying maps , was started in 1950 ( and has been in revision since 1970 ) . |
| 60 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |