Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 2 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 3 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 4 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 5 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 6 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 7 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 8 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
| 9 | Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you . |
| 10 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And from the moment Mr Weintraub saw him in Spain he has been in someone 's company twenty-four hours a day . |
| 13 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 14 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 15 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 16 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 17 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 18 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 19 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 21 | On a personal level , the calm and cool Monie has also swept all before him , winning the Coach of the Year award every season he has been in Britain . |
| 22 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 23 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 24 | She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations . |
| 25 | Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing . |
| 26 | That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 28 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 29 | But I hope Graham will look at my bowling this winter in a different light to the way it has been in the past by England . |
| 30 | However , since he left school he has been in no further trouble with the police and , although unemployed , remains happily at home with his family . |