Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
| 2 | A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal . |
| 3 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 4 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 5 | Ian Gilmour , deputy social work director , said : ‘ He has been through a very bewildering experience in the past 36 hours , and he is not aware of all that has happened , including the tragedy of his mother 's death . ’ |
| 6 | He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’ |
| 7 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 8 | Since he was pulled from under a pile of 40 bodies over three years ago he has been in a coma , unlikely ever to recover . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ He has been in a lot of pain and this just puts the lid on it . |
| 10 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 11 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 12 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 13 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 15 | It has been for a , a while now |
| 16 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |