Example sentences of "and have [been] a [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 | He could remember how , after moving out here and having been a city-dweller all of his life , he 'd come to realise that he 'd never known what true darkness was ; even away from houses and street lighting there had always been a faint , reflected amber cast to the sky , but here there was nothing . |
| 21 | MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall . |
| 22 | He was the younger brother of Lajos ' father , and had been a successful export — a businessman who owned a factory . |
| 23 | The owl had been cold and slow and had been a poor meal for the wolf . |
| 24 | He played in every position in the Bangor back-line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter-provincial championships in the last nine years . |
| 25 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 26 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 27 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |
| 28 | Mario Solórzano was secretary-general of the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) and had been a presidential candidate in 1985 . |
| 29 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 30 | The local authorities spend over a quarter of public expenditure and have been a major source of control problems . |