Example sentences of "has been [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last .
2 Also singled out for particular censure has been Mozart 's wife Constanze , who has often been accused of hastening her husband 's early death through her sluttishness , extravagance , and inability to keep the household finances in order .
3 Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy .
4 His purge has been West Germany 's much-needed transfusion , as its 26,500 new citizens bring with them precious skills .
5 The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) .
6 The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses .
7 Editorial director Anne Furniss approached the RHS with the suggestion for the new series ; project editorial manager has been Jane O'Shea , and art editor has been Ann Burnham .
8 Leading the effort has been Tadahiro Sekimoto , chairman of NEC , Japan 's fourth biggest computer company .
9 The Royal Oak has been Knutsford 's main hotel ever since it was built in the 1890s .
10 A well-kept secret until recently has been Watts 's rendering of The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin , in the Country of Arcadia ( Northampton , n.d. ) , from the French of 1735 , reprinted 1788 , of G. H. Bougeant ) , a spirited and intricate blend of romance and mock-romance .
11 THIS has been Germany 's year .
12 This time around , the star has been Nikolaj Hubbe , and he , too , will leave at the end of the festival to join NYCB .
13 An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down .
14 First founded in 1514 , the most famous pupil to date has been William Wilberforce , the slave law reformer .
15 The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills .
16 One of the most enthusiastic authorities taking up housing action trusts has been Liverpool city council .
17 He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks .
18 He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks .
19 They base their prognosis on the aggressive new product development and marketing that has been Cadbury 's hallmark in recent years .
20 The programme opens with While Shepherds Watched sung to the tune of ‘ On Ilkley Moor Bah't 'At ’ , and an interview with the man who has been Santa Claus to generations of children travelling on the Worth Valley Railway 's ‘ Santa Specials ’ : Jack Rowell , who lives on the railway in the Station House overlooking its terminus at Oxenhope .
21 His second guru has been Shostakovich , for the sheer power of his expression , and , because , like every true artist ‘ he stood up firmly on his own cultural earth ’ .
22 Rogan , who has been Sunderland 's discovery of the season since being switched to the centre of defence by Crosby three months after his £350,000 transfer from Celtic , reverted to left back in the 2–2 draw at Brighton , when his first goal for the club salvaged a priceless point .
23 Undoubtedly the most popular , indeed cuddly , alien of recent years has been ET — perhaps Gremlins ( 1984 ) was even conceived partly as an ‘ answer ’ to ET .
24 In recent years it has been Ian Rush who has been the scourge of Everton but this time he turned provider to send the Israeli international through a dumbfounded Everton defence .
25 It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity .
26 The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet .
27 Joe was Limerick District President 1975–78 and has been Waterford District President since 1990 .
28 Equally questionable has been ASEAN 's development .
29 Among other jobs , he has been Italy 's representative at the International Monetary Fund .
30 A seminal influence in this style of thinking has been Gilbert Ryle 's exposure of the category mistake , which implies that the most logically organized case may crumble because it turns out to depend on unnoticed analogies .
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