Example sentences of "[been] [noun prp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 2 | There had always been Eve and only Eve ; it was going to be a big wrench . |
| 3 | But it had been Elisabeth and Daniel themselves who , in 1939 , elected to spend the whole summer alone on Møn , rather than accompany their parents to South America . |
| 4 | It might have been Icarus and Pilcher , instead of the Wright brothers … ! |
| 5 | The champions might equally well have been Epicurus and Lucretius ranged against St Paul . |
| 6 | The major proponents of a rules based approach in the UK have been Crew and Rowley ( 1970 , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | I thought it had been Diane and the Charles ! |
| 8 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 9 | Abu Jaber said that " the Palestinian people must be allowed to exercise their right of self-determination in their ancestral homeland " and added : " Let me speak plainly that Jordan has never been Palestine and will not be so . " |
| 10 | Very belatedly the Foreign Secretary was forced to admit that the frogman seen by the Russians had been Crabb and , as a result , on 1O May the subject was aired in parliament . |
| 11 | She should have been , would have been , indeed , originally it had been Cara and not her who had been going to make the trip to Czechoslovakia alone . |
| 12 | I put the dustbin bag out on the Wednesday and it and and and it should have been Thursday and . |
| 13 | It has been Matthaeus and the older heads who have impressed in recent months , however . |
| 14 | Opening the prosecution case , John Burke QC said both Caddocks and Scott were involved in the road haulage business as had been Chorley and this provided an ideal cover for importing drugs from Belgium . |
| 15 | The two big flops in the list have been Rolls-Royce and British Steel . |
| 16 | Indeed , they could have been Hal and his rascally crew . |
| 17 | The guiding light along O'Leary 's path has been Campion and Saracens coach John Davies , who says his star pupil will push the Underwood brothers hard for their places . |