Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 2 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 3 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance comittee . |
| 4 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance committee . |
| 5 | He has been chairman of the all-party Anglo-Irish Group since 1979 . |
| 6 | He has been chairman of the road safety committee since 1986 . |
| 7 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 8 | Since 1988 he has been chairman of CAFOD . |
| 9 | Since 1990 he has been Chairman of the English Shakespeare Company . |
| 10 | He has been Chairman of Tesco since 1985 and is also a non-executive Director of National Westminster Bank . |
| 11 | Special interests include planning and the environment ; he has been chairman of the borough planning committee for 16 years . |
| 12 | Indeed , he has now won three of his last six tournaments , in two more of which he has been second . |
| 13 | During his time at the flour mill ( which is actually 30 years if you include an earlier spell ) he has been mixerman , cuber operator , machine man , bran packer and even cleaner — when there were seven employees per shift ! |
| 14 | A member of Reading & Leighton Park Canoe Club , he has been Publicity Officer for the Devizes to Westminster Race , Treasurer of the Marathon Committee and Southern Region Secretary . |
| 15 | He has been branch representative in most of the branches in which he has worked . |
| 16 | He has been branch representative in most branches in which he has worked and an Area Council member for 15 years . |
| 17 | He has been part of the decision-making process to broaden the game 's amateur ideals : ‘ The players now have a very square deal worked out ’ . |
| 18 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 19 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 20 | He has been principal of Heriot-Watt since 1989 . |
| 21 | In the five years since , he has been world champion three times , but the British Open has eluded him . |
| 22 | He has been MP for Hull East since 1970 . |
| 23 | He has been rector of Groomsport for 18 years and Rural Dean of Bangor since 1991 . |
| 24 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
| 25 | He has been Group Chief Executive of Cadbury Schweppes since 1984 and will shortly become Chairman . |
| 26 | He joins the company from the Wellcome Foundation Limited , where he has been Group Risk and Insurance Manager for eleven years . |
| 27 | He has been governor of the state of São Paulo , where he is mounting his own mass media network . |
| 28 | Latterly he has been director of the Actors ' Centre in London . |
| 29 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 30 | For the past seven years , he has been President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |