Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 2 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 3 | She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Fribourg , Switzerland ; Natal , South Africa ; and La Trobe , Melbourne . |
| 4 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 5 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 6 | She 's got a bruise on her arm like she 's been ten rounds with Dempsey … and it 's all your fault . ’ |
| 7 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 9 | He has been chief executive of the rival Leeds Permanent society , which ranks fifth in size , since 1987 . |
| 10 | He has been vice president , sales at Cygnet Systems Inc , the optical jukebox house . |
| 11 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 12 | He has been managing director of LASMO North Sea for the last four years and has been responsible for the group 's activities in the UK and Netherlands . |
| 13 | He has been European golf 's generalissimo and it is appropriate that the decade opened to the sound of a Ballesteros devastation . |
| 14 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 15 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 16 | JIM WISE , NDO for Credit Accumulation and Transfer , has been seconded from Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh where he has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics since 1981 . |
| 17 | Latterly he has been Fast Reactor Director . |
| 18 | He has been national champion at under-10 , 14 , 16 and 19 level , and World Young Master . |
| 19 | Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent . |
| 20 | He has been discouraging enquiry and I think we live with that legacy which produces apathy in our general population about health care issues . |
| 21 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 22 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 23 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
| 24 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
| 25 | 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours . |
| 26 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
| 27 | During the last nine years , it has been richer pensioners who have been the main beneficiaries of the real increase in the value of pensions . |
| 28 | ‘ As you can imagine it has been total panic but fortunately the suppliers have been very co-operative and we will be ready . ’ |
| 29 | Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts . |
| 30 | It has been rough going . |