Example sentences of "and have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | The statistical expansion of recorded crimes and a success largely determined by detection rates support the inevitable institutional contention that more control is a necessity , and has been a corner-stone in police ideology for the whole of my service . |
| 4 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The author of Evolution Without Evidence , Bay G. Gale , took his PhD in the history of evolutionary thought , at the University of Chicago , and has been a fellow of the National Science Foundation and member of Darwin College , Cambridge . |
| 9 | The following week he took his family on Sunday and has been a member of the church ever since . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Greenway is also an accomplished horseman and has been a member of the Council of the British Horse Society since 1973 . |
| 12 | He underwent three operations on the long haul back to fitness and has been a helpless onlooker as Leeds floundered in their title defence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He is a decent fellow , and has been a good skipper . |
| 15 | This attractive stone house dates from the 1750s , and has been a hotel since the 1930s . |
| 16 | He also presented himself to the Rehabilitation Officer and has been a very great nuisance to him … |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 20 | Eddie Titcomb , manager of Pensions and Equity Participation , joined in September 1976 as the company accountant and assistant secretary and has been a LASMO man ever since . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He is a department manager at Harwell Laboratory and has been a director of Wedgwood since 1966 . |
| 25 | Harold started on the biscuit drums and has been a biscuit placer for 16 years . |
| 26 | He has represented Dundalk Area on the Executive Committee since 1988 and has been a member of the Dundalk Area Council since 1985 . |
| 27 | She has been a member of the Dublin Ladies ' ( now Women 's ) Committee since 1990 and has been a branch representative for 8 years . |
| 28 | He was District Secretary there since 1991 and has been a branch representative in several branches since 1976 . |
| 29 | In the same year he joined British Gas Southern as a driver in the transport section he has now nearly completed thirty four years ' service with British Gas and has been a member of this trade union for nearly thirty four years . |
| 30 | Clearly , reducing the number of road casualties is and has been a priority for the Government for some time . |