Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CPRW has been a member of the EEB for many years and works through it to influence European and global environmental policies . |
| 2 | Mr Ferguson has been a fan of Schmeichel for four years , but it was not until last summer that he could persuade Denmark 's top club , Brondby , to accept an offer . |
| 3 | The school magazine put it in writing : ‘ R. Jenkins has been a tower of strength in Rugby and under normal circumstances would probably have gained an International cap . |
| 4 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 5 | ( First Edition ) FOR YEARS , Bulent Ersoy has been a source of confusion to music-loving Turkish Muslims . |
| 6 | Anne Hayward has been a member for 15 years and re-reads the Lord of the Rings annually in three or four days . |
| 7 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 8 | The key to the problems facing Sheffield has been a lack of sponsorship by commercial companies . |
| 9 | Shrewd in the transfer market and refreshingly frank in his public pronouncements , Lennie has been the signing of the season . |
| 10 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 11 | Gary has been a pit deputy at Whitemoor for four years . |
| 12 | New Brighton has been the setting for seven British championship events , but next week 's spectacle will be the first with European involvement . |
| 13 | New Brighton has been the setting for seven British championship events but next week 's spectacle will be the first to feature European boats . |
| 14 | A further innovation in Botswana has been the setting up of local curriculum development committees . |
| 15 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 16 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 17 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 18 | IN MOST ways , post-war Germany has been a model citizen . |
| 19 | Germany has been the jewel of Ingres ' crown , with 700 new licences expected to push revenues there up to DM35m from DM27.6m last time around . |
| 20 | One of the great incentives for development in Germany has been the ability to bring academic institutions into the real world of production to allow technology transfer , aided , abetted and assisted by the Landers and the local authorities . |
| 21 | The Black Forest in Germany has been the victim of forest decline , where symptoms such as yellowing leaves and needles and a thinning crown affect half the country 's trees . |
| 22 | THROUGHOUT history , Germany has been an idea or , more accurately , a longing ( Sehnsucht ) rather than a reality as a unified state . |
| 23 | For ten years , Milan Kundera has been a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris . |
| 24 | Although Pakistan has been the conduit for the arms supplied to the guerrillas by America and Britain , the guerrillas in the field have been their own men . |
| 25 | Northamptonshire has been the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and his Montagu ancestors since 1528 . |
| 26 | The Financial Times , for example ( 1986 ) , has suggested that ‘ there is little doubt that in commercial terms the LDDC has been a success ’ . |
| 27 | THE severely degraded landscape of the volcanic highlands of central Mexico has been the focus of considerable debate . |
| 28 | ‘ I think if Kylie Minogue has been a flash in the pan she would have lasted for a couple of singles . |
| 29 | Because Lucy has been a tower of strength , ’ he informed her candidly . |
| 30 | Bela Kadar , the minister of international economic relations , claims that Hungary has been the recipient of half of all recent foreign investment in Eastern Europe . |