Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 9 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 10 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 19 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Wilko has nt a problem with buying players … the only problem he has is with selling players too cheap . |
| 23 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 24 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 25 | Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend . |
| 26 | The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master . |
| 27 | Though the moment of penetration is almost painless , the presence of the botfly causes a lot of irritation , and by the time it has been in residence for three weeks or so , the resulting lump is quite painful . |
| 28 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 29 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ He has maintained a silence throughout the time he has been in custody . |