Example sentences of "he have been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been one of the Legislative Council 's most diligent members , a demanding enough job ; he accepted China 's offer of a seat on the Basic Law Drafting Committee , helping to write Hong Kong 's post-1997 mini-constitution , and was embroiled in more unsuccessful arguments for direct elections , opposed by mainland communists and Hong Kong conservatives . |
| 2 | Hallas , 21 , missed an entire season two years ago with glandular fever and has started only 60 games for Hull KR , though he has been one of their mainstays . |
| 3 | He has been one of the inspirations behind the anti-EC Conservative European Reform Group . |
| 4 | But that 's nothing compared to his previous existences — he has been one of the 12 priests who murdered Queen Nefertiti 's husband , a minor Basque priest in the last century , and Ivan the Terrible . |
| 5 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |
| 6 | He has been one of Diana 's closest confidants during the difficult years of her rocky marriage . |
| 7 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Skokov has rarely spoken in public ( in his three years in parliament , he did not make a single speech ) , yet he has been one of Russia 's most influential politicians . |
| 9 | He has been one of the very few Serbs to have the courage to speak out against the kind of fanatical Serbian nationalism which has led to the present war . |
| 10 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 11 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 12 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 13 | In fact , he 'd been one of two warders who had escorted Derek Bentley from the condemned cell to the hangman on January 281953 . |
| 14 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 15 | He 'd been forty when Dickens died in 1870 , quite old enough to know that , whatever the fuss made over him , Dickens 's private life was hardly on a par with Queen Victoria 's . |
| 16 | His mother , he would say , had left home after such a humiliation , taking the three children on what had proved a pilgrimage of terror ; he thanked God he had been nine years old and able to run off and fend for himself . |
| 17 | President of the IBOA 1989–91 , Vice-President 1987–89 and , since 1991 , a managers ' panel member of the Executive Committee , as he had been 1985–87 . |
| 18 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 19 | He had been thirty-two in 1970 ; there had been certain events that were crucial to his life . |
| 20 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 21 | After all , he had been one of Ariadne 's protegés . |
| 22 | A few years ago he had been one of the best-paid dancers in Flamenco . |
| 23 | After she had killed her father , he had been one of the interrogating officers . |
| 24 | He had been one of oil giant Ultramar 's youngest directors and worked for the firm for more than 20 years . |
| 25 | He had been one of the founders of Lancashire Enterprise , started in the early 1980s by the controlling Labour Group on the county council , and financed by a 2p rate . |
| 26 | For year 's he had been one of Chicago 's most respected DJs and individual producers . |
| 27 | He had been one of the most energetic scourges of this sceptic isle , but once he was victim of a fatwah , he became an outspoken defender of the freedoms that are available in British cultural life . |
| 28 | As ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ he had been one of the most famous names of the Second World War . |
| 29 | Luckily he had been one of those we had briefed and he remembered the name . |
| 30 | Rabscuttle was full of tricks and games and quite soon he was running and playing just as if he had been one of the children himself . |