Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He has been a managing director since 1986 and Deputy Chairman since 1990 . |
2 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would have liked to be here this evening because I know well that he has been a tremendous support to my hon. and learned Friend and his family in many small and touching ways , which I know have been deeply appreciated . |
3 | He has been a fantastic friend helping me with financial work . ’ |
4 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
5 | He has been a consistent advocate of ensuring that the law of the land is adhered to . |
6 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
7 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |
8 | ‘ He has been a perfect gentleman , ’ she said quickly . |
9 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
10 | In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser . |
11 | Far from Mr Atkins being considered the distant , unsympathetic figure depicted in the article , he has been a frequent visitor to the school over the past two years , giving support and advice to help us achieve our aims . |
12 | Since August 1991 he has been a key member of the Planning Team preparing for the European Summit Meeting at the Palace on 11 – 12 December 1992 and organising the subsequent reinstatement works . |
13 | Tristan Garel-Jones is not a household name but he has been a key player in British , and particularly Tory , politics over the past two years . |
14 | He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence . |
15 | This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient . |
16 | He has been a non-executive director of Dalgety since 1990 . |
17 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
18 | He has been a staunch advocate of the open skies policy which has helped to open up regional aviation . |
19 | A former chairman of Meirionnydd FUW , he has been a long-serving member of the union 's finance and executive committee and sits on the Meat and Livestock Commission 's sheep technical committee and research and development sub-committee . |
20 | He has been a guiding beacon in my professional life and a touchstone of human integrity . |
21 | He has been a vocal champion of the occasionally fashionable view that a company should be run in the interests of ‘ stakeholders ’ — its employees , suppliers and customers , and the regions where a company operates . |
22 | He has been a longstanding critic of the council , accusing it of failing to support him following his sacking by Stockport HA . |
23 | He has been a popular guest in numerous network talkshows , and introduced ZeeBeeCee 's Emmy-award-winning How to Get Rich in 80 Days last year . |
24 | Chairman Sir Norman Fowler said : ‘ He has been an outstanding member of the Government for a number of years . |
25 | He has been an energetic supporter of the democracy movement in China ; and of Hong Kong campaigns to secure right of abode in Britain . |
26 | Since 1980 , when he founded his own label , Hannibal Records , he has been an enthusiastic supporter of music from Africa and Eastern Europe , but has still found time to produce albums by mainstream American groups such as REM and 10,000 Maniacs . |
27 | He has been an abstract painter and understands the pull of abstraction and the need for decorative patterns and composition . |
28 | He has been an outspoken critic of the Squash Rackets Association 's economic stringency at this unsponsored event and made an official complaint about Friday 's referee , Ed Johnson . |
29 | Ngugi is unimpressed by much of this ‘ progress ’ ; he has been an outspoken critic of the Kenyan Government and spent time in jail as result . |
30 | He has been an Honorary Officer since holding the position of Honorary Treasurer for a year in 1984/85 and since then he has been Northern Ireland Special Representative . |