Example sentences of "he [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 3 | He has been chief executive of the rival Leeds Permanent society , which ranks fifth in size , since 1987 . |
| 4 | He has been vice president , sales at Cygnet Systems Inc , the optical jukebox house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He has been European golf 's generalissimo and it is appropriate that the decade opened to the sound of a Ballesteros devastation . |
| 8 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 9 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Latterly he has been Fast Reactor Director . |
| 12 | He has been national champion at under-10 , 14 , 16 and 19 level , and World Young Master . |
| 13 | Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent . |
| 14 | He has been discouraging enquiry and I think we live with that legacy which produces apathy in our general population about health care issues . |
| 15 | He 'd been sure Joe was dead when they left him . |
| 16 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 17 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 18 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 19 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 20 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 21 | His mother , he would say , had left home after such a humiliation , taking the three children on what had proved a pilgrimage of terror ; he thanked God he had been nine years old and able to run off and fend for himself . |
| 22 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 23 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 24 | He had been warm-up man for the Pope on his tour of the Republic ; he was always on Irish radio and television . |
| 25 | Since 1954 he had been Second Master , filling this difficult position with meticulous efficiency and good humour , qualities which also marked his teaching . |
| 26 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 27 | He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff . |
| 28 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 29 | He had been Private Secretary to my uncle when he was Viceroy , and later Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier of India before he went to the Sudan . |
| 30 | These were papers , filling two volumes , left unpublished at Hunter 's death , which Owen dedicated to the Royal College of Surgeons , where from 1837 he had been Hunterian Professor . |