Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 2 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 3 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 4 | First elected to the lower house of the Diet in 1958 , Abe had been Chief Cabinet Secretary in 1977 and , after failing to win the party leadership in 1982 , he served as Foreign Minister between 1982 and 1986 . |
| 5 | Author Salmon Rushdie has been busy Christmas shopping . |
| 6 | Novell has been busy writing application programming interfaces to accommodate object-oriented applications , which , it says , will read and distribute objects as packets ( or images ) across the network . |