Example sentences of "[pers pn] has be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth is a 27-year old midwife who considers she has been at least a stone ( 14lb/6.5kg ) overweight since she was aged 16 . |
| 2 | She has been at Orion since October , and has been responsible for , among other things , the marketing of Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy . |
| 3 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 4 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 5 | He has been at court , he is an educated man . |
| 6 | He has been at the head of many investigations , one major case being the doping of Bravefoot and Norwich , which disfigured the 1990 St Leger meeting at Doncaster . |
| 7 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
| 8 | He has been at the centre of California politics too long to escape responsibility for the state 's deeper sicknesses . |
| 9 | He has been at Salisbury for 21 years — ‘ I 'm on my third bishop , my fourth dean and my fifth clerk ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 12 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 13 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
| 14 | He has been at Charlton for ten months after completing a period of secondment at Shaw 's in the USA . |
| 15 | Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable . |
| 16 | Responsible , neighbourly and democratic , for nearly half a century it has been as gemütlich abroad as it has been at home , pulling either its weight or its punches as the occasion demanded . |
| 17 | Knowing that some foreigners , and even some Germans , would worry about a possible reversion to past behaviour , it has been at pains to show itself to be a reformed character not just by these qualities of good citizenship but by its guilty conscience . |
| 18 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |
| 19 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 20 | Since nationalization , it has been at least 80 per cent ( Bain and Price 1983 ) . |
| 21 | We had originally intended to freeze our budget at precisely the level that it has been at the last two years for a variety of reasons we have decided that it is sensible to actually bring it down yet further . |