Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | March has been part of the Grand Prix racing scene for more than 20 years , but recent lack of sponsorship has meant staff at Bicester have n't been paid for over 5 months . |
| 2 | Marcus has been kind enough to come here . |
| 3 | Since leaving South Morecambe , Colin has been manager responsible for CCG projects all over the country , as far as Hull , Peterhead , Essex , Nottingham and Lincoln . |
| 4 | Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 . |
| 5 | In his time Taylor has been part of the North-East 's industrial traditional first as managing director of the now defunct Head facility at Stockton and later at Aycliffe-based Eaton Axles . |
| 6 | Aged 38 , Lina has been secretary to the general manager for three years . |
| 7 | Letzkus ( 1980 , p. 181 ) states that ‘ it appears that the concept of ZBB has been oversold . |
| 8 | Mr Devaux has been head of chambers at the firm which is soon to drop its name based on the names of partners in favour of the title East Anglian Chambers . |
| 9 | Mr Scott has been chairman of Stockton Council 's planning committee almost constantly since 1974 , says a dire slump in the local economy is enough in itself to sound a death knell for the Tories . |
| 10 | Ceauşescu had been part of the leadership under Dej which took the decision to press ahead with devoting enormous resources to industrializing Romania against Khruschev 's wishes . |
| 11 | Engstrom had been Deputy Finance Minister until 11 days previously when he became interim Finance Minister on Kjell-Olof Feldt 's resignation from the caretaker government . |
| 12 | All were CPSU members and Yazov , Yanayev and Kryuchkov had been politburo members , though after the reorganization of the party in July 1990 [ see p. 37614-17 ] , following the March abolition of its constitutional monopoly on power [ see p. 37299 ] , government ministers could no longer be on the party 's ruling bodies . |
| 13 | Pinto had been Professor of English at Nottingham since 1938 and oversaw the university 's transition to the autonomous degree-giving status which was achieved ten years later . |
| 14 | Although Scotland has been part of the United Kingdom for nearly three hundred years , it has never lost its identity as a separate nation , and Edinburgh has remained the centre of its government , church and law , which itself can provide an incentive to study in the capital . |
| 15 | Mr Lyons has been part of the team which restructured Labour 's industrial policy , the fruits of which were seen in John Smith 's alternative Budget . |
| 16 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 17 | Mr Stott has been editor of the Daily Mirror since 1985 . |
| 18 | However , the Bank of England has been party to the arrangements for placing gold and dollar reserves with the EMCF on a three-month temporary basis in exchange for ECUs . |
| 19 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 20 | A member of the Socialist Unity Party ( PSU , until October 1990 the Socialist Party ( PSI ) — see p. 37786 ) , Vassalli had been Justice Minister since July 1987 [ see p. 35589 ] . |
| 21 | Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 . |
| 22 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 23 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 24 | BRAZIL HAD BEEN PARADISE . |
| 25 | Fergus had been waist deep and sinking fast . |
| 26 | Karl Barth had been pastor in Safenwil since 1911 . |
| 27 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 28 | I 'm afraid we have to accept the fact that Marius did die from natural causes , and that all our suspicions of Nigel have been slander , just based on dislike and nothing else . ’ |
| 29 | VPDPR has been whosn to have two possible physiological functions besides its role as a propeptide . |
| 30 | Mr Storm has been Town Clerk of Nairn for forty-two years . |