Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 2 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 3 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 4 | If a man has lost his employment and his wife , he has been charged with drunk driving and his blood tests show damaged liver function , one hardly needs to ask questions on his alcohol consumption and the answers are unlikely to be fully truthful in any case . |
| 5 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 6 | He has been questioned about alleged pornography found at the house he shares in Evesham with the school 's Headmaster , Richard Alston , who has also been suspended . |
| 7 | But he has been influenced by Old Masters . |
| 8 | Show Geoff some charity I WOULD like to draw to the attention of all regular shoppers and visitors to Liverpool , who have heard the lovely voice of Geoff Caddick who does lots of charity work for the Newborn Baby Appeal , to the fact that he has been harassed by certain local business people who wish to move him on . |
| 9 | Here , Pip has realised what a disaster he is and he has been hit by hard consequences as a result of his greediness . |
| 10 | It was also perfectly timed , for only last week Hendry was overtaken by Jimmy White at the head of the provisional world rankings — the first time since May 1990 that he has been removed from top spot . |
| 11 | He has been suspended on full pay . |
| 12 | It 's natural that Yuri should so enjoy dressing down , when for some much of his life he has been zipped into elaborate Bolshoi costumes , his cheekbones and eyes accented by thick , expertly applied theatrical make-up . |
| 13 | He has been promoted from stand-by reserve for Friday 's first Test against Australia at Oxford after Belle Vue captain Joe Screen withdrew because of club commitments . |
| 14 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 15 | He has been idolised by fictional characters from Dean Moriarty in Kerouac 's On the Road to Barley in Le Carre 's The Russia House , and he is one of only two people looked up to by Miles Davis . |
| 16 | He has been released on conditional bail . |
| 17 | He has been suffering from gastric flu . |
| 18 | MORDECHAI VANUNU : a former nuclear technician at Dimona in Israel , he has been held in solitary confinement since October 1986 . |
| 19 | He quickly regained consciousness but was kept under observation for 12 hours before being returned to the prison where he has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest off the Moroccan coast by the Royal Navy last August . |
| 20 | Chair of the Fire Board , Councillor Bill Axon , said : ‘ The Fire Service has been perceived as a male-dominated , macho career where women ca n't participate , but it has been proven in other brigades that women can take part on an equal footing to males . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Creative ’ writing has acquired a bad name ; it has been contrasted with proper grammatical writing , and has come to be numbered among the suspect activities of the Loony Left , or at least with the ‘ soft ’ brigade . |
| 22 | Our teachers have mastered its methods with ease and it has been met with great success , interest and enthusiasm by our students . |
| 23 | Flowers concluded with a much-quoted dictum : ‘ There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived , highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future . ’ |
| 24 | It has been demonstrated with experimental animals , and observed from babies kept in institutions ( like hospitals ) , that lack of sensory stimulation impairs intelligence . |
| 25 | It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects . |
| 26 | This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health . |
| 27 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 28 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 29 | Although Hampden Babylon will be distrusted by managers , administrators , footballers and agents , it has been written from inside football . |
| 30 | First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’ |