Example sentences of "he [vb -s] 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 's been Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside and was the Deputy Chief Constable of Lancashire before coming to Gloucestershire in ninteen eighty seven . |
| 16 | But then he 's been burning gold every few days for ten years . |
| 17 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 18 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
| 19 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 20 | He 's been all sweetness and light , promised nothing and done ditto . ’ |
| 21 | But erm you know I 've , I 've but she said he 's been right sort of |
| 22 | He 's been visiting family ; I 'm on my way to write about the Russian submarines in Murmansk — maybe interview a submarine officer if I am lucky . |
| 23 | And and come in on the , he came on the Tuesday and he 's been three days a couple of weeks so |
| 24 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |
| 25 | This magnificent stag rules the herd , he 's been busy keeping at bay the 8 other stags which stick together in their own batchelor group on the fringes of the herd . |
| 26 | Oh he cuts peats , he 's been busy cutting peats . |
| 27 | Much thanks to John and many others in the R Y A who helped with training and preparing er that er expedition and then in the World Disabled Championships in Barcelona , Kevin who has one of our Challenger catamarans , in which he 's been national champion seven times . |
| 28 | Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing . |
| 29 | Gin er was that er Alderman , the old gentleman , the older alderman , you know he 's been dead years now from , and erm they were very good . |