Example sentences of "he [verb] been [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Skokov has rarely spoken in public ( in his three years in parliament , he did not make a single speech ) , yet he has been one of Russia 's most influential politicians . |
| 2 | He has been one of Diana 's closest confidants during the difficult years of her rocky marriage . |
| 3 | He 'd been full of hostility , she recalled , when he 'd said , ‘ How the hell , in the short time you 've been here , you 've earned the name Miss Frostbite beats me . ’ |
| 4 | He knew he had done nothing , knew beyond suggestion 's reach that he had been innocent of action as well as intention . |
| 5 | He had been one of Frank Bruno 's sparring partners . |
| 6 | After all , he had been one of Ariadne 's protegés . |
| 7 | For year 's he had been one of Chicago 's most respected DJs and individual producers . |
| 8 | He had been one of oil giant Ultramar 's youngest directors and worked for the firm for more than 20 years . |
| 9 | Christopher had turned blue as if he had been short of oxygen . |
| 10 | At the trial of the action in 1979 Reeve J declined to take into account the supervening spinal disease and awarded damages on the basis that the plaintiff had been capable of light work , not on the basis that he had been incapable of work since 1976 in consequence of a disease for which his employers were in no way responsible . |
| 11 | Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken . |
| 12 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |