Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 2 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 3 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 4 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 6 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 7 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 8 | No I , I have n't got any plans at the moment , you know I 've been sort of er I usually go around this time you know , er |
| 9 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 10 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 11 | The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest . |
| 12 | These trained workers are preparing the Ark centre , near Oxford for the arrival of youngsters , who 've been victims of sexual abuse . |
| 13 | She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year . |
| 14 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 15 | He says there 've been messages of support coming in . |
| 16 | Local authorities have been subject of budget cuts , rate cutting and unfortunately redundancies over the last dozen years or more . |
| 17 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 18 | Although there have been cases of viruses spreading on shrink-wrapped software , these are relatively rare . |
| 19 | But the many miles of treeless river inhibits recolonization by otters , and even in the 1980s there have been cases of water authority workmen felling known otter holts . |
| 20 | Some people are wary of keeping Plecs in an aquarium with Discus as there have been cases of Plecs grazing off the sides of the Discus and leaving sucker marks on them but I have not seen any evidence of this from the Spotted Orange Pleco . |
| 21 | Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel . |
| 22 | Here , a granuloma forms around the larva on the retina , often resembling a retinoblastoma , and there have been cases of precipitate removal of the eye in children following misdiagnosis . |
| 23 | Cllr Murphy , who works for MDC as a caretaker for a block of flats in Coatbridge , says he can prove that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs went to Labour Party members . |
| 24 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 25 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 26 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 27 | Although this policy may have been viewed as a ‘ reasonable ’ intervention in the free market for private housing , there might in any case have been problems of enforcement of restrictions on resale . |
| 28 | The demands of the National Curriculum have put great pressure upon the educational service in new forms of school management and there have been problems of staffing and funding . |
| 29 | He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party . |
| 30 | But the years since then have been ones of decline for Yorkshire , mainly , many observers of the game believe , because of the white rose county 's obstinate refusal , until last year , to move with the times and have an overseas star player in the side . |