Example sentences of "she [vb -s] been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She has been a member of the party since 1911 , and for 50 years , until a few weeks ago , collected subscriptions . |
3 | She has been a member of the Bramshott and Liphook community Care Group since it started and is now on the executive committee . |
4 | She has been a member of the Dublin Ladies ' ( now Women 's ) Committee since 1990 and has been a branch representative for 8 years . |
5 | She has been a member of the board of the British Council since 1985 and is a vice president of the NSPCC . |
6 | A post-mistress , she has been a member of the Middlesbrough club for a number of years . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . ’ |
10 | She has been a friend of WACC for the last 20 years . |
11 | She has been a delight from the beginning , not only to us , but to all the friends and relatives who have met her . |
12 | I will bring my friend Florence Ames , she has been a nurse — perhaps you remember her ? |
13 | When she has been a carer in the family and she can no longer fulfil this role or it is no longer needed |
14 | Then , in 1982 , the then fledgling Century published her first novel , Light a Penny Candle ; she has been a bestseller every since . |
15 | Small and blond with one grown-up daughter , she has been a driving instructor for ten years . |
16 | She has been a governor of both comprehensive and primary schools and has served as a co-opted member on council social services committees . |
17 | Twice she has been a semi-finalist and twice a quarter-finalist . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | She 's been a wizard . |
21 | Oh yeah she 's been a couple of times to see if I 'd swap . |
22 | She 's been a school governor a Labour councillor T L P executive member member of the Social Security and industrial tribunals . |
23 | She 's been a bit funny these last couple of days , like summat 's bothering her or summat . |
24 | She 's been a bit snuffly … |
25 | Marjorie said , ‘ She 's been a bit cross all morning . |
26 | She 's been a bit sick . |
27 | and , and had discomfort too , she 's been a lot better . |
28 | She 's been a Royalist since childhood and tomorrow she hopes to meet the Queen at the official opening of the new Oncology Unit at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford . |
29 | She looked at the strong old face , the arched bone of the nose , the imperious , high forehead and thought : I bet she 's been a tartar in her day . |