Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 2 | We are in the early stages of developing a day-case surgery/five-day ward and would be very interested to hear from anyone who has been part of a similar project . |
| 3 | I AM indebted to John Moorey from Portsmouth who has been kind enough to fill me in with some of the details of the extraordinary golfing life of Mary Toogood , nee Johnson , who died earlier this year . |
| 4 | Which would suggest that it might be rash to release Mr Sisulu , who has been secretary general of the ANC since 1949 , at this stage . |
| 5 | Stuart Webb , who has been secretary , chairman and managing director during 21 years at Derby was unanimously voted out as associate director after constant conflict with the board . |
| 6 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 7 | Mr Deighton , who has been chairman since the club 's formation , said : ‘ I feel honoured and pleased that I can officially keep close ties with the club . ’ |
| 8 | Terence Flanagan , who has been principal of the flagship college for the last six years , takes up his new post in September . |
| 9 | John Evans , who has been Captain of the golf society since it started , stood down as he will be retiring next year . |
| 10 | Haydn Dalton , 60 , who has been manager of the town 's Odeon for over 20 years , started his career as a trainee at the Leeds ' Majestic in the 1950s . |
| 11 | Hilary Weedon , who has been teacher 2nd and 3rd P.E . |
| 12 | Professor Anthony Jones , who has been President of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago since 1986 , is the new appointment as the Rector of the Royal College of Art . |
| 13 | Awarded the MBE is Meurig Davies , 54 , of Deganwy , who has been coxswain of Llandudno Lifeboat since 1970 , and retires next April after 30 years service . |
| 14 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 15 | Indeed Samuel et al reported that when HBIG was administered on a regular basis in the first two years after liver transplantation to 100 patients who had been serum HBsAg positive , HBsAg reappeared in 22.7% only . |
| 16 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 17 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 18 | The chap who had been kind enough to get me my pint said , ‘ I was only a young chap at the time but I remember him well . |
| 19 | I 'd even had a call from the Archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Runcie , who had been kind enough to phone to say that he had been greatly moved by the vigil and had wanted to let me know that the situation was n't hopeless . |
| 20 | Therefore , we reasoned that patients who had been stone free for two years or more might represent a ‘ protected ’ subgroup at low risk for recurrence . |
| 21 | In those who , at the point of entry into the trial , had already been stone free for > the nine month median , there was a significantly lower recurrence rate ( 12.7 ( 6.0 ) % at 42 months by LTA ) than in those who had been stone free for |
| 22 | David Checketts was his first private secretary , a former squadron leader in the RAF who had been equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh , and was the perfect person to help the Prince make the transition from the armed services into a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 23 | There are a handful of representatives of well-known political families , like Nicholas Soames and the present Winston of the Churchills , the Douglases Hogg and Hurd , who are both the sons and grandsons of MPs , while the father of Sir Charles and Peter Morrison ( ‘ Pinky and Perky ’ ) was Lord Margadale , who had been chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee in the fifties and sixties . |
| 24 | Initially they were Josiah ( ‘ Jack ’ ) Eccles , formerly head of the Liverpool Corporation electricity undertaking ; Alderman Lewis , a trade unionist and local Labour politician from the Midlands ; John Pickles , ex-county electrical engineer of Dumfries and an expert in rural electrification ; and Harry Randall , who had been chairman of the London Supply Companies Association . |
| 25 | He takes over from Harry Mogford FHCIMA , who had been chairman since the formation of the committee five years ago . |
| 26 | This was true of Lyfing of Crediton , who had been abbot of Tavistock ; of Æthelric and Eadnoth II of Dorchester , both Ramsey monks ; of Edmund of Durham ; of Brihtwig of Wells , abbot of Glastonbury ; and of Brihtheah of Worcester , abbot of Pershore . |
| 27 | In 1619 Sir Thomas Smith , who had been treasurer of the Company since 1609 , was pushed into retirement and the new directors led by Sir Edwin Sandys brought about two important changes . |
| 28 | A CBS News poll showed him neck and neck with Bill Clinton , who had been way ahead for months . |
| 29 | for example , long after Bede , in his Boke of Nurture John Russell , who had been Marshal of the household of the great patron of learning , the youngest son of Henry IV , Duke Humphrey of Gloucester ( 1391–1447 ) , described how the four courses of an elaborate fish-dinner that he had prepared for his master and guests was accompanied by appropriate ‘ subtleties ’ , or ornamental devices . |
| 30 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |