Example sentences of "have be a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were Miss Margaret ( Peggy ) Herbison , who is the oldest surviving Scottish woman MP , having served in the Labour Party cabinet in the 1960s ; Councillor Sheila Ritchie , who has been a Liberal Democrat councillor in Gordon for a number of years and is at present a member of the party 's National Executive Committee ; and Miss Ann Hay , who is an influential key organiser for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Susie Cornell , who has been a multiple sclerosis sufferer for 20 years , at the Under Pressure gymnasium |
| 3 | The Copperbelt has been a political melting pot for years . |
| 4 | For several years there has been a major breed improvement and production scheme in France to increase its genetic merit and select the best breeding stock from a nucleus of 45,000 recorded cows . |
| 5 | ‘ My fitness has been a major talking point in Glasgow . |
| 6 | He could not argue , looking at Imperial , that there has been a major brain drain of senior staff . |
| 7 | In spite of City concern about the level of company debt built up to acquire Britoil and North American assets , BP has been a major capital spender in Scotland as part of its positioning to improve its long-term competitive position . |
| 8 | Produced in many parts of the Mediterranean , the oil has been a major trading commodity throughout history , just as it is today . |
| 9 | This fact , quite unknown when Hahnemann first discovered the effects of potentization , has been a major stumbling block to the acceptance of homoeopathy by orthodox doctors . |
| 10 | Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been a fantastic effort thanks to the wonderful generosity of your readers . |
| 12 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 13 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |
| 14 | PROF Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 15 | PROFESSOR Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 16 | Seeing the parachutes back in the air has been a great morale booster for the base . |
| 17 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 18 | However , changes have occurred at the local level , for there has been a strong centralization trend evident in both . |
| 19 | We have described this process earlier ( chapter 6 ) , and it seems to occur in every case where fingerspelling has been available for some time and there has been a strong hearing influence . |
| 20 | Although there has been a radical management shake-up and there have been improvements in organisation and efficiency , the fundamental ethos of the NHS — provision of medical service free at the point of use — has remained unchanged . |
| 21 | Her life has been a prototypical starlet scenario : country girl with dreams comes to the city and gets to see her name in lights . |
| 22 | NEW Circus — the mixture of traditional skill matched to modern theatrical interpretation — has been a growing world movement since the beginning of the Eighties . |
| 23 | On each of the three occasions this century where there has been a clear coalition government — May 1915 to November 1922 , August 1931 to September 1932 , and May 1940 to May 1945 — it has been to meet a national emergency . |
| 24 | It has been a Registered AutoCAD Developer since January 1992 and its Solution 3000 product line runs under MS-DOS and Unix . |
| 25 | The week has been a huge marketing success and has certainly helped us promote ES services locally . |
| 26 | As ‘ Working Title ’ continue to expand and develop , it seems a good moment to look back at some of their prolific and varied output , and we will be screening a number of titles from ‘ MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE ’ through the powerful drama ‘ A WORLD APART ’ , scripted by Gillian Slovo , Ruth First 's daughter , and underrated films like ‘ PAPERHOUSE ’ to ‘ ROBIN HOOD ’ , scripted by John Mcgrath , and then a number of their new releases : ‘ EDWARD II ’ ( directed by Derek Jarman ) , ‘ DAKOTA ROAD ’ and ‘ DROP DEAD FRED ’ , which has been a huge box office hit in the States . |
| 27 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 28 | I think it 's fair to say that know more about it than I do , but there has been a High Court case recently which has , seems to have er torpedoed the er prospect of er including affordable housing in new housing deals , so I 'm informed . |
| 29 | There has been a national style revolution in Britain which has influenced and been influenced by the youth culture of football spectatorship . |
| 30 | The nearest comparable company , GGT , was more aggressive withe regard to acquisition and diversification , but the result has been a weakened balance sheet . ’ |