Example sentences of "she has [be] " in BNC.
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1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
3 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
4 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
5 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
6 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
7 | She has been a member of the party since 1911 , and for 50 years , until a few weeks ago , collected subscriptions . |
8 | ‘ We think that a girl with a mental age of seven years and nine months is quite capable of knowing when she has been raped . ’ |
9 | Mrs Scrivener was sharply rebuked , not least by the Commission President , Jacques Delors , and she has been instructed to stand firm against the governments ' proposal today and tell ministers to think again . |
10 | She has been a delight from the beginning , not only to us , but to all the friends and relatives who have met her . |
11 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
12 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Since then , after a series of well-publicised operations , to the consternation of her fans among the fundamentalists , she has been a woman - Turkey 's first and most famous transsexual . |
15 | Alternatively , if she has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least five calendar years into the qualifying week for 8 hours or more each week , then she is also eligible . |
16 | She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army . |
17 | First , both theories suggest an eventual return of homosexuality : in the one ( psychoanalytic ) it is a psychic return of the repressed from within , in the other ( materialist ) a social or cultural return from without ; either an inner resurgence of desire through the breakdown of psychic repression , or the oppositional approach via the proximate of the demonized other from beyond , from the social margins where he or she has been discovered , constructed , displaced . |
18 | First because he or she has been regarded ( especially in psychoanalytic theory ) as one who fears the difference of the ‘ other ’ or opposite sex , and , in flight from it , narcissistically embraces the same sex instead . |
19 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
20 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
21 | On the whole she has been more attentive to the requirements of the arts of self-presentation and the requirements of the mass media and public relations than other leaders like Heath , Callaghan , and Foot . |
22 | She has been highly critical of many established institutions , such as the senior civil service , Foreign Office , Bank of England , universities , and local government . |
23 | She has been willing to look outside the civil service for advice on policy — to various ‘ think tanks ’ and individuals who have often reinforced her scepticism about traditional departmental policy views . |
24 | She has been as ready as the Labour party to apply political criteria when making appointments to bodies like the health authorities and nationalised industries . |
25 | Since that date she has been the subject of TV documentaries , a feature film ( ‘ Frida ’ by Paul Leduc ) , a stage play , numerous publications and the inspiration for designer clothing . |
26 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
27 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
28 | That has yet to be tested in public , but the evening certainly did not put her off — — she has been an ardent fan of the Welsh National Opera ever since . |
29 | She has been in the hat business since 1982 but a devotee for far longer . |
30 | Moreover , she has been advised by Sir Alan Walters that , once exchange controls have finally been removed by France and Italy in July 1990 , the new freedom of capital flows will break the fixed exchange rate system apart . |