Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge .
2 JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 .
3 I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton .
4 The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 .
5 In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before .
6 Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ?
7 I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously .
8 Well he 'll have a nice lot of money when he finished being Prime Minister .
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