Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Stott has been editor of the Daily Mirror since 1985 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | — 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 . |
| 16 | VPDPR has been whosn to have two possible physiological functions besides its role as a propeptide . |
| 17 | Mr Storm has been Town Clerk of Nairn for forty-two years . |
| 18 | The hamlet of Thornholme has been part of Burton Agnes parish since time immemorial . |
| 19 | ‘ Jim , I could n't give a toss if the Queen Mum has been gang banged . ’ |
| 20 | The traditional answer given as to the purpose of RE has been nurture within a particular faith . |
| 21 | The baby King Penguin has been hand reared and follows his adopted mum everywhere . |
| 22 | Trudy Watt has been College Lecturer in Biological Statistics at St. John 's College , Oxford . |
| 23 | For more than 20 years John Glendinning has been chess correspondent for the Scotsman newspaper . |
| 24 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 25 | The former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton has been chairman of the planning committee for 16 years and was founder-director of the Northern Development Company , which aims to attract investment to the area . |
| 26 | For instance , one important factor put forward to explain the growth of trade union membership among white collar workers in Britain has been government policy which created a favourable climate for such union expansion . |
| 27 | In fact the commonest cause of death on the hill in the last three years in the Lake District has been heart attacks . |
| 28 | Bishop Peter has been bishop of Gloucester for just eight months and Prince Charles was among the guests at his enthronement in April . |
| 29 | Since 1987 Elma has been Derry Area Ladies ' Representative . |
| 30 | Alan Knott has been second only to Les Ames as an England wicket-keeper/batsman . |