Example sentences of "[pron] has [been] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ I am not a psychiatrist , but if someone has been through a traumatic experience I have to consider that it could happen . |
| 2 | Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis . |
| 3 | Next Computer Inc , which has been through a tidy sum already , has gotten further financing : this time a $55m credit line from Canon Inc and another $10m from Steve Jobs himself — both are former investors already . |
| 4 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 5 | Despite the fact that unvented hot water cylinders often come with all the components pre-fitted to the hot water cylinder , the Building Regulations require the use of an ‘ Approved Installer ’ — which means someone who has been on a proper training course . |
| 6 | A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal . |
| 7 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 8 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 9 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 10 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 11 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 12 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 13 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ If anyone has been through a traumatic experience , it takes a long time to unwind . |