Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding . |
| 2 | ‘ I know she has been friendly with you — perhaps spoken freely to you . |
| 3 | She has been honest with herself and the lesson is clear . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 5 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 6 | ‘ She has been marvellous for Constance . |
| 7 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 8 | She has been involved with assisting at church services which were relevant to issues of world poverty . |
| 9 | She has been involved with minors and this is completely horrendous . |
| 10 | She has been involved with promoting freedom of information in local government . |
| 11 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 12 | Working with the Church and the community , she has been involved in reconciliation work aiming to address the trauma of conflict and poverty . |
| 13 | She has been involved in three new workout videos entitled The Shape Series , which she presents . |
| 14 | He knows she has been married since graduating but does n't know her present surname or whereabouts . |
| 15 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 16 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |
| 17 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's true she has been unkind to you , because she dislikes your faults , as Miss Scatcherd dislikes mine . |
| 19 | And Helen replies , she has been unkind to you , no doubt because , you see , she dislikes your cast of character as Miss Scatcherd does mine . |
| 20 | It is a great merit in Mrs Taylor that she has been content to be guided by her moral taste , which is very fine and true , without trying to form a set of principles upon it . |
| 21 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 22 | She has been active on the London fringe , playing the title part in Strindberg 's Miss Julie , Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Ernest and other parts . |
| 23 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 24 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 25 | Since 1981 she has been feature-writing for the bi-monthly alumni magazine of the University of Massachusetts , which gives her scope for science reporting and reporting on contemporary issues . |
| 26 | She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army . |
| 27 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 28 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 29 | Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title . |
| 30 | Organisations whose networks he has been involved with include Texas Instruments , General Motors , Boeing , Sears , U.S. Army and Navy , GTE , Singer , TRW , ALCOA , Pacific Bell , Australian Telecom , British Telecom and J.C . |