Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Poole , the District 's own Organising Secretary in Norfolk and Norwich , had been asked by a Cambridge Board officer not to go ‘ … into towns or villages where there was or had been Extension work ’ . |
| 2 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 3 | Secondly , erm actually most of the rest of us on the governing body , or many of the rest of us on the governing body , even though we 're not parent Governors , are either now or have been parents of children at Banbury School , and that includes some of the political members too , so that erm I hope we all share the same interests . |
| 4 | A very small proportion of cigarette smokers develop lung cancer , but almost all people with lung cancer are or have been smokers . |
| 5 | The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible . |
| 6 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 7 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 8 | Another interesting finding is that many of these patients have worked in the medical field ; they are particularly likely to be or have been nurses ( Simpson 1975 ) . |
| 9 | People with members of their family who are or have been alcoholic may , very understandably , be too scared of ‘ hitting the bottle ’ themselves to allow even a temporary licence in that area . |
| 10 | Altogether eighteen artists took part , all of whom are either practising or have been carpet designers in the past . |
| 11 | As most relatives have been denied access to the graves , or have been brow beaten into silence the true figures are much higher , and some sources put the figure in excess of 5,000 . |
| 12 | Secretary Anne Branch , of College View , Monkwray , who has been with the Company since 1948 and has been secretary to various Managing Directors including the present incumbent Keith Jackson . |
| 13 | Joe was Limerick District President 1975–78 and has been Waterford District President since 1990 . |
| 14 | In 1984 Young married Lilian Lawson , another prelingually deaf person of Scottish birth , who has held administrative posts since 1981 and has been Head of Administration since 1988 . |
| 15 | The structure of HPr from S. faecalis has been solved using multiple isomorphous replacement ( MIR ) followed by solvent flattening and has been least-squares refined at 1.6 resolution . |
| 16 | Dave won a silver medal when he defended his Commonwealth title in Auckland , New Zealand , in 1990 , and has been AAA 's champion five times . |
| 17 | This piece of ‘ The Storm ’ timber was felled in Hull and has been air drying ever since , I hope I have done it justice . |
| 18 | It is organised in year groups and faculties and has been part of the Cheshire ‘ Cost Centre ’ scheme since 1976 . |
| 19 | He is very knowledgeable about Cayman history and has been metal detecting all over the Cayman Island . |
| 20 | Colin Johnson is driving the van and has been Bella 's lover for 15 years . |
| 21 | His entry in Who 's Who shows that he has won The Palladium ( sic ) Medal of The Electrochemical Society and has been professor and head of the chemistry department at Southampton University since 1983 . |
| 22 | He now plays for Dallas Sidekicks and has been Dallas All-Sports athlete of the year twice . |
| 23 | Outside council business Mr is a representative of the Langstone Harbour Board activities the Lord Chancellor 's advisory committee and has been governor of five local schools . |
| 24 | She was first elected branch representative in 1987 and has been Clonmel District Secretary since 1988 . |
| 25 | and having been sort of helping |
| 26 | Most experts agree Karpov is favourite but at 41 and having been World Champion and failed to regain the title in four matches with Kasparov , his enthusiasm must be waning . |
| 27 | Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work . |
| 28 | The outcome fuelled speculation about possible realignments on the left in Greek politics , where the KKE was the major element in the Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos , of which Florakis was president ) since its formation in 1989 , and had been part of the two government coalitions in power from July 1989 until February 1990 [ see pp. 36738-39 ; 37050-51 ; 37263-64 ] . |
| 29 | A successful businessman , he had been on the Board since 1972 , and had been Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association between 1966 and 1970 , and President in 1972/3 . |
| 30 | With the arrival of Stephen Rowlinson as London Managing Director in May 1985 , total staff were reduced from 42 to 24 , and consultants were replaced , mostly by other McKinsey people : Rowlinson had spent seven years with McKinsey and had been CEO of a group of manufacturing companies . |