Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These conflicts have , of course , had diverse and individual causes , but common to them has been a change in the political environment in which public enterprises operate . |
| 2 | Key among them has been a failure in the UK to build appropriate or adequate bridges between business , the universities , and other sources of innovation like the national laboratories . |
| 3 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 4 | She has been a deputy Speaker since 1987 , and is understood to have been Mr Kinnock 's choice for Speaker if Labour had won last week 's General Election . |
| 5 | She has been a member of the party since 1911 , and for 50 years , until a few weeks ago , collected subscriptions . |
| 6 | She has been a member of the Bramshott and Liphook community Care Group since it started and is now on the executive committee . |
| 7 | She has been a member of the Dublin Ladies ' ( now Women 's ) Committee since 1990 and has been a branch representative for 8 years . |
| 8 | She has been a member of the board of the British Council since 1985 and is a vice president of the NSPCC . |
| 9 | A post-mistress , she has been a member of the Middlesbrough club for a number of years . |
| 10 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 11 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 12 | Before she married , my father , who had rescued his parentless sister-in-law from a succession of scrapes , once remarked ( not unkindly ) , ‘ She has been a nuisance all her life and always will be . ’ |
| 13 | She has been a friend of WACC for the last 20 years . |
| 14 | She has been a delight from the beginning , not only to us , but to all the friends and relatives who have met her . |
| 15 | She has been a J.P . |
| 16 | I will bring my friend Florence Ames , she has been a nurse — perhaps you remember her ? |
| 17 | When she has been a carer in the family and she can no longer fulfil this role or it is no longer needed |
| 18 | Then , in 1982 , the then fledgling Century published her first novel , Light a Penny Candle ; she has been a bestseller every since . |
| 19 | Small and blond with one grown-up daughter , she has been a driving instructor for ten years . |
| 20 | She has been a governor of both comprehensive and primary schools and has served as a co-opted member on council social services committees . |
| 21 | Twice she has been a semi-finalist and twice a quarter-finalist . |
| 22 | Since then , after a series of well-publicised operations , to the consternation of her fans among the fundamentalists , she has been a woman - Turkey 's first and most famous transsexual . |
| 23 | She has been a soloist at the Proms and is currently principal oboe with the London Bach Orchestra and the Orchestra of St John 's , Smith Square , and Professor of Oboe at the Royal Academy and Trinity College . |
| 24 | He has been a couple of times . |
| 25 | Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ . |
| 26 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 27 | He campaigned against the burial of irradiated waste in the UK , and Parliamentary commitments include serving on the select committe for employment , 1983–87 , and he has been a whip responsible for defence , energy , transports and Northern Ireland for several years . |
| 28 | Through his chairmanship of the TCCB 's Registration Sub-committee , he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the TCCB since 1980 . |
| 29 | The Dungarvan Leader once commended a candidate " with a record of achievement " in these revealing terms : " He has consistently fought in the Waterford County Council ( of which body he has been a member for many years ) for amenities for the town , and it was thanks to his representations that the long-suffering residents of the old road had a footpath provided in front of their homes to prevent flooding . |
| 30 | He has been a member of the Chief Executive 's Management Group since those early days and is the only remaining director from the team which put the Council together in 1974 . |