Example sentences of "mr [noun] has been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr MacDonald has been taken to Banbury for questioning and scenes of crime officers have been searching his house this afternoon . |
| 2 | Even if Sir Richard 's Bill fails , Mr Gummer has been forced to bring in regulations himself . |
| 3 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 4 | Mr Ritchie has been told by legal counsel that this new evidence in their opinion provides substantial grounds for Mr Lang to order a retrial or a full reinvestigation of the case , but assessment of the appeal documents is at an early stage . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Defence has denied negligence , although Mr Ferrante has been told that RAF rules governing training at Brize Norton have been changed . |
| 6 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 7 | Mr Taylor has been asked to be a candidate in other constituencies . |
| 8 | Mr Baughan has been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years . |
| 9 | With hindsight , one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week 's changes . |
| 10 | Mr Gollnisch has been invited to speak at a Conservative fringe meeting in Blackpool , organised by Western Goals UK , a movement run by the former Tory MP , Sir Patrick Wall . |
| 11 | A former adviser to Roy Hattersley , Mr Hill has been running Labour 's highly effective press and broadcasting machine . |
| 12 | Mr Shoon has been appointed to the new South Korean cabinet of the recently-elected president , Kim Young Sam . |
| 13 | Since taking over from Left-winger David Hunt , former Thatcherite Mr Redwood has been trying to reassure the Welsh that there will be no dramatic change in Welsh Office policy . |
| 14 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Mr Jagger has been attempting to put the record straight about his musical colleague , Mr William Wyman , the bass ( sic ) player , who recently declared that the belipped chanteur was ‘ an egomaniac ’ and then went on to dispute Mr Jagger 's claim to be the author of the seminal lied , ‘ Jumping Jack Flash ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Zhu has been tipped to replace the cautious Mr Li eventually . |
| 17 | However , since then Mr Barnes has been considering starting proceedings under the 1976 Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act , which allows for prosecutions of individuals in the Republic for offences allegedly committed in Britain . |
| 18 | Mr Bond has been building rockets since his teens . |
| 19 | Mr Bond has been threatened with receiverships , the loss of boardroom control at his key Bell Resources company , failure to secure sale of the breweries , share suspensions , disclosure that a former employee may have been involved in telephone bugging and the final indignity of a derisory A$53 million bid from rival Kerry Packer for his TV interests . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Boulez has been associated with the project from the very first days so I say he can consider this house his home . |
| 21 | The money from US West will help its balance sheet , which Mr Levin has been trying to clean up . |
| 22 | Although Mr Raban has been described as ‘ the finest writer afloat since Conrad ’ , he modestly forbears to include his own work . |
| 23 | Along with with Robin Harris , past director of Conservative research department , who is joining the Downing Street policy unit , John O'Sullivan , editor of the US National Review and Sir Ronald Millar , playwright , Mr Patten has been helping to write the Prime Minister 's speech for today 's keynote address . |
| 24 | Analysts say Mr Patten has been fighting a war of nerves with China over the proposals , with neither wanting to go into any negotiations from a position of weakness . |
| 25 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 26 | The rest of the Standard 's hardware is a potpourri of virtually every guitar that Mr Carlton has been associated with . |
| 27 | The most direct risk of an Arab exit is an Israeli entry : the very response that Mr Hussein has been hoping for . |
| 28 | Many Americans , probably including George Bush , as well as many of the Iraqi 's Arab enemies , believe that there can be no lasting peace unless Mr Hussein has been humbled . |
| 29 | Mr Nichol has been seconded to the region for a special project , studying the effects of community care throughout the country . |
| 30 | So far , Mr Berlusconi has been allowed to keep three national TV channels — the same number as RAI . |