Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 2 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 3 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 4 | She has been involved in three new workout videos entitled The Shape Series , which she presents . |
| 5 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 7 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 8 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |
| 9 | Since then he has been involved in two research projects on older workers , and has acted as a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on early retirement policies . |
| 10 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 11 | Hard working Ted says he does n't worry that his face is n't that well known even though he has been involved in most light entertainment shows on the box . |
| 12 | He has been involved in several research projects relating to the spatial impacts of industrial organisation and change within the UK and EC . |
| 13 | In the year under review he has been involved in 20 seminars , 18 counselling workshops and has undertaken 92 company visits . |
| 14 | Since then , he has been late on numerous occasions and we believe his alcohol consumption has increased . |
| 15 | He has been consistent in all his 33 appearances in which he has scored six goals . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 17 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 18 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 19 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 20 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 21 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 22 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 23 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 24 | It has been helpful for many in showing that complex medieval Latin plainchant can be simplified and adapted to modern English texts , whilst retaining the basic musical principles of the eight Gregorian modes . |
| 25 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 26 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 27 | It has been profitable on annual turnover of about £180m — $270m — over the past few years . |
| 28 | To conclude , in order to examine an area which is rarely focused upon in itself , it has been necessary in this chapter artificially to abstract the object , considering it in rather universalistic terms , and in relation to a perhaps overdrawn dichotomy with language . |
| 29 | Recently it has been well-aired in this country through broadcasts and festivals ; enough to form an initial overall view . |
| 30 | Whatever else it is , though , it has been successful in conventional business terms , although not as successful this year as the table suggests . |