Example sentences of "been a [noun] [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they have combined with this has been a church growth philosophy that has been remarkably successful . |
| 2 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 3 | I 've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages . |
| 4 | My first choice had always been a pay review body and the significant breakthrough came when Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan at the Treasury also backed this proposal . |
| 5 | He had been fond of his uncle , Thomas had been a bluff hearty man but unfortunately he did not have a head for business . |
| 6 | ‘ Mary Joe Fernandez and I got hooked up though , and it would have been a fairy book finish if we could have won it . |
| 7 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 8 | He also falsified his qualifications , including a Master of Business Administration diploma from the Madison Business School in the United States , and claimed to have been a Laker Airways manager and an executive with the failed Polly Peck international conglomerate . |
| 9 | Schmidt , born in 1918 , had been a Hitler Youth member and a lieutenant in the wartime army , but he had joined the SPD soon after the war and entered the Bundestag as early as 1953 . |
| 10 | There 'd apparently been a Friday night meeting though the chairman had gone to New Zealand the day before at which new directors had been appointed . |
| 11 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 12 | Winter Marsh has been an army training ground since the First World War . |
| 13 | A headline in the early weeks of 1991 referred to a 20% failure rate in reading skills ; an alternative , and preferable , line would have been an 80% success rate and a reminder of the conclusion of the Warnock Committee that , at any one time , 18% of the school population has special educational needs . |