Example sentences of "and have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Hay won this title as skip in 1984 and has been prominent as a player and coach in Scotland and Canada since . |
2 | An experienced general manager has been retained in a consultancy role and has been present on practically all the visits to units since August 1991 . |
3 | Sheikh Mohammed 's nine-year-old has a history of leg trouble and has been absent since his Cheltenham triumph in March . |
4 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
5 | The other thing that 's been done , erm , and has been ongoing now for some months without too much success , but things seem to be moving a little bit , at least we 're told they are , is that I I pressed for , not really a presentation but a technical meeting , I wanted to get there there product engineers |
6 | The PFA chairman no longer figures in Bassett 's first-team plans and has been available at a bargain £70,000 since the end of last season . |
7 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
8 | joined the Group with the acquisition of of Trowbridge in May 1978 and has been regional buyer for the north west region since March 1985 . |
9 | Ad quodraturn is basically one square laid over another at an angle of 45 degrees , and has been one of the commonest systems employed throughout the world . |
10 | It has been an outstanding success , and has been one of the most far reaching reforms ever carried out in Scottish Education . ’ |
11 | Runcorn opened on June 1 and has been terrific with small fish all along and bream at Astmoor and S Bends . |
12 | Tracy , 27 , said : ‘ Jamie is always having colds and chest infections and has been poorly since he was born . |
13 | Mayrhofen is one of the most popular of the Tyrolean resorts and has been welcoming British guests for many years . |
14 | Pamidronate , a second-generation bisphosphonate , is a potent inhibitor of resorption , and has been successful in the treatment of TIH . |
15 | ‘ My husband has looked into Nahum 's affairs , as there was no one else to do it , and has been shocked to find that debts were mounting weekly . ’ |
16 | The government is hoping for a vote of confidence in the elections , and has been dismayed by the support the Front appears to be getting . |
17 | He has used ‘ other Texels ’ and has been disappointed with the grading results . |
18 | Curt Fredrikson founded the Swedish Debt Surveillance operation , and has been Managing Director of the Swedish wing of Justitia since 1985 . |
19 | ‘ Secondly , the post of organiser at the Whyte House , is ACE-funded and has been vacant since December 1992 and all attempts to fill it have proved unsuccessful . |
20 | Sveticic , a near neighbour of fellow Slovenian soloist Tomo Cesen ( ‘ the world 's greatest mountaineer ’ according to Reinhold Messner ) , had earlier soloed the very hard Rolling Stone route on the same face , and has been close to the tops of K2 and Everest . |
21 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
22 | He was apprenticed as a toolmaker at Vickers Armstrong and has been thirty five years as the college lecturer at Colchester Institute . |
23 | Painting throughout its history has served many different purposes , has been flat and has used perspective , has been framed and has been left borderless , has been explicit and has been mysterious . |
24 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
25 | The BVI economy is based primarily on tourism and has been subject to significant expansion . |
26 | This so-called ‘ hidden curriculum ’ is claimed by many feminists to be at least as important in child development as the formal curriculum ( see , for example , Byrne , 1978 ) , and has been subject to intensive study ( e.g. Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) . |
27 | It is working closely with HSE , and has been impressed by the progress made since 1974 in moving towards a much more thorough understanding of the real reasons for major breaches of safety , and of how to make them less likely . |
28 | Perhaps he has no calling and has been unhappy in the family business for years . |
29 | Lawrence is settled at Middlesbrough and has been pleased with the progress of his first season . |
30 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |