Example sentences of "and have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You will no doubt be familiar with the Tesco Healthy Eating campaign which started in 1985 and has been a major success . |
| 7 | Stainrod has scored six goals from just five starts and has been a major influence in Dundee 's recent run of good form . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 10 | He underwent three operations on the long haul back to fitness and has been a helpless onlooker as Leeds floundered in their title defence . |
| 11 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | There is and has been a great temptation to design many types of record sheets which involve complex systems of ticks , crosses and shadings to represent attainment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He is a decent fellow , and has been a good skipper . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As well as years of service to the R Y A , Scot di R Y A Scotland , Staveley has twice served in the R Y A Council and has been a distinguished member of the Yacht Racing Divisional Committee . |
| 18 | Isabel has worked with great energy for the Society , and has been a much-welcomed participant and calm presence at many Society functions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When the Employment Service was formed in 1987 , he joined the Executive board and has been an influential figure in our development as an Agency . |
| 21 | Wizz Jones began his musical career fronting a country and skiffle band in his home town of Croydon , Surrey in 1958 , and has been an established member of the British and European acoustic folk/blues scene ever since , with artists like Eric Clapton citing him as a major influence . |
| 22 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |
| 23 | Class members experiences in ‘ other fields ’ make interesting listening — 78 years old Joy Young one of Freda Lewis 's most loyal supporters was born in Cape Town and has been an inveterate traveller throughout her life . |
| 24 | Secretary of Hindhead preservation Group , Chris Woodward , who is an amateur historian and has been an active campaigner for the area for the past five years , said he was ‘ totally opposed to the change ’ . |
| 25 | Elizabeth discovered Medau with Cicely Harris and has been an enthusiastic class member ever since . |
| 26 | He joined Cardiff last season from Hirwaun , and has been an ever-present this term . |
| 27 | Altdorf is the seat of the Emperor Karl Franz and has been the Imperial capital since the accession of Wilhelm Prince of Altdorf . |
| 28 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 29 | LUBAINA HIMID is a lecturer in Fine Art at Lancashire Polytechnic and has been the main force behind the flowering of Blackwomen 's Art in Britain . |
| 30 | It is an American gun and has been the main weapon of the Official IRA . |