Example sentences of "[coord] has been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 2 | Indeed no one who is , or has been a police officer can be appointed . |
| 3 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 4 | Similarly in section 1(3) : ‘ A person who is or has been a Crown servant … ’ |
| 5 | It is best if this person can be someone who is or has been a teacher and who can therefore understand and evaluate production proposals that come up . |
| 6 | ( a ) a director or member of the body is or has been a director or member of a recognised body which has been the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or |
| 7 | ( c ) the powers conferred by Part II of Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974 have been exercised in respect of the body or in respect of a firm or recognised body of which a director or member of the body applying for recognition is or has been a principal or a director or member as the case may be ; or |
| 8 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |
| 9 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 10 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 11 | The statistical expansion of recorded crimes and a success largely determined by detection rates support the inevitable institutional contention that more control is a necessity , and has been a corner-stone in police ideology for the whole of my service . |
| 12 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 13 | The Washington attorney was a close friend and adviser to Guinness 's former chairman , Ernest Saunders , and has been a major target of the SFO 's investigation of the corporate scandal . |
| 14 | The last-swimming oceanic Dall 's porpoise is a popular food item and has been a favourite target of Japanese harpoons in the province of Iwate ( north-eastern Honshu ) for many years . |
| 15 | Mr Canavan , who is fighting for re-election as MP for Falkirk West and has been a prominent member of PLCND , said : ‘ I have always been proud to be a member of CND and will continue to campaign vigorously for unilateral nuclear disarmament within the Labour Party . |
| 16 | The author of Evolution Without Evidence , Bay G. Gale , took his PhD in the history of evolutionary thought , at the University of Chicago , and has been a fellow of the National Science Foundation and member of Darwin College , Cambridge . |
| 17 | The following week he took his family on Sunday and has been a member of the church ever since . |
| 18 | In 1932–3 it was extended by a further 80m and has been a popular promenade for tourists and Madeirans ever since , as well as a good place from which to observe the activity in the harbour and marina . |
| 19 | Mr Greenway is also an accomplished horseman and has been a member of the Council of the British Horse Society since 1973 . |
| 20 | He underwent three operations on the long haul back to fitness and has been a helpless onlooker as Leeds floundered in their title defence . |
| 21 | This type of relief is of great benefit to the retiring director upon the disposal of his shares in the company , providing he has kept a sufficient percentage holding of shares and has been a full-time working director until this point in time . |
| 22 | ‘ He is a decent fellow , and has been a good skipper . |
| 23 | This attractive stone house dates from the 1750s , and has been a hotel since the 1930s . |
| 24 | He also presented himself to the Rehabilitation Officer and has been a very great nuisance to him … |
| 25 | Under normal circumstances small favours of this type could be obtained by a politician with government connections , and it was only circumstances of a temporary nature which made job provision difficult for Scots politicians , such as the effective block which appeared in 1737 following the lynching of an officer of the City Guard of Edinburgh , when as a writer remarked , the hanging of Captain Porteous ‘ sticks vastly in his majesties stomach and has been a great detriment to our countray-men in getting any thing done ’ . |
| 26 | After bodyguard work he turned to full time military journalism in 1985 ; and has been a frequent and major contributor to the French magazine RAIDS . |
| 27 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 28 | Eddie Titcomb , manager of Pensions and Equity Participation , joined in September 1976 as the company accountant and assistant secretary and has been a LASMO man ever since . |
| 29 | The terminal has expanded its storage capacity five-fold since its initial inauguration and has been a major and consistent profit earner in the intervening years . |
| 30 | He was Isaac Woolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1992. was part-time chairman of AEA from 1982 to 1984 and has been a part-time member since then . |