Example sentences of "she have been the " in BNC.

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1 Since that date she has been the subject of TV documentaries , a feature film ( ‘ Frida ’ by Paul Leduc ) , a stage play , numerous publications and the inspiration for designer clothing .
2 She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes .
3 She has been the Great North Run winner in 1990 and 1991 as well as the British track holder at all distances from 100m to 800 .
4 But in all of this she has been the least public : less frequently on conference platforms , much less in print .
5 She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised .
6 She has been the catalyst . ’
7 She 'd been the most sought-after debutante of her year and , according to the occasional letter Alice had had from Lady Debrace , was forever receiving proposals from faithful admirers who danced constant attendance upon her .
8 He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area .
9 It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe .
10 Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club .
11 The injuries indicated she had been the victim of a sustained attack .
12 She had been the toast of Berlin but she was getting on by now when one evening she gave a Lieder recital in the Berlin Philharmonie .
13 She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds .
14 Admittedly , she had been the one who left , but , in the end , he had been the one to do the getting-rid-of. poor Judi .
15 Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance .
16 For years now , she had been the protector , taking decisions , fending off unwelcome visitors , sparing Donald all unnecessary cares .
17 She had been the only passenger to alight from the two carriage train which she could still hear dimly in the distance , chuffing its way over the Severn Bridge on its way to Lydney .
18 She had been the rock of our whole family , the matriarch , a marvellous , marvellous woman .
19 In fact she had been the powerful sustaining force for as long as he could remember .
20 Our interview with her was the first news she had ever had that she had been the subject of a judgement summons .
21 But wherever they had gone , she had been the perfect companion : enthusiastic , amusing and loving .
22 The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest .
23 Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator .
24 Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim .
25 Guilty that she had been the lucky one .
26 If she had been the offspring of drunken parents in Scotland Road , or born with a hair-lip like Ma Tang 's daughter , there might be some excuse for feeling as she did .
27 In the end , he simply stared at her , shaking his head as if she had been the one to ask the question .
28 She had been the only one to choose a piece from Alice in Wonderland .
29 Equally , she was absent herself ; naturally enough — she had been the photographer .
30 I knew she had been the housekeeper there since Hindley 's death .
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