Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [been] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has also been a Governor and one time Chairman of the Reigate School of Art & design . |
| 2 | She has previously been a youth worker and trainer in both the statutory and voluntary sectors . |
| 3 | She has now been a ticket collector for more than 15 years and has won a radio and a newspaper award for her personality and popularity with passengers . |
| 4 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 5 | ‘ She has always been a Liverpool fan , though , and used to follow them to Wembley . ’ |
| 6 | She 's ancient , and sexless the way the very old and the very young are , but she 's still been a woman , and I resent that , for my own good reason . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's always been a star . |
| 8 | for three quid — she 's always been a sports fan . ) |
| 9 | He added : ‘ He has previously been a candidate for Sinn Fein in the Assembly elections . |
| 10 | He has also been a member of the actuarial profession 's working party on AIDS and developed a model suitable for forecasting the number of AIDS cases in the UK . |
| 11 | Enlightenment man has undoubtedly been a man of power , but he has also been a barbarian . |
| 12 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 13 | Since he has only been a director since last May , Wanless is untainted by the strategic mistakes of the past regime . |
| 14 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 15 | He has always been a mummy 's boy , and he has always been arrogant . |
| 16 | He has always been a source of inspiration to me and I hope that he will take it as a compliment when I say that , from the days when I was a student , he has been an inspiration to me . |
| 17 | The churchyard around it has probably been a burial place for 1000 years . |
| 18 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 19 | It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working . |
| 20 | Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing . |
| 21 | Yes , well it has also been a point that for all their substantially lower salaries there are far more bright sparks in the higher echelons of public sector management than is credited . |
| 22 | Their public excuse was that they attempted to do so in the Social Security Act 1986 , but it has clearly been a failure . |
| 23 | It was supposed to be for just a day , or maybe two , but it has already been a week … ’ |
| 24 | This will not be my project here , though it has certainly been a feature of my engagement with de Man 's criticism in general . |
| 25 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 26 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 27 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 28 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |
| 29 | But it has long been a mystery to me why students find proofs to be a mystery , and Solow has the answer : it 's not enough to tell them ‘ a proof is a sequence of logical steps ’ . |
| 30 | It has long been a house . |