Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy . |
| 2 | Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 . |
| 3 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 4 | In all these sports I have mentioned England has been masters and had all the top players . |
| 5 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 6 | ‘ Their lives had been hell and they were all very frightened . ’ |
| 7 | The cost of this project to the town has been £20,698 and Mr. Downham hoped that it would not only give much enjoyment , but would be treated with respect by all , so that it can be enjoyed for many years . |
| 8 | " The outcome has been incoherence and immobilism ; drift , not mastery . |
| 9 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 10 | During the course of the time the right hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister he is convicted by his own record and condemned by his own inaction in the face of the slump that he caused . |
| 11 | They said ‘ The price we have paid for trying to control inflation has been unemployment and recession . |
| 12 | De Benedetti had been vice-president and a major shareholder of the Banco Ambrosiano from November 1981 to January 1982 , before ceding control to Roberto Calvi , who was found hanged in London in April 1982 [ see p. 32083 ] . |
| 13 | The major proponents of a rules based approach in the UK have been Crew and Rowley ( 1970 , 1971 ) . |
| 14 | The smoke had been west and north when they had looked from the Ridgery . |
| 15 | Other relations had been bishops and aldermen , ‘ barristers-at-law ’ , but my father was most proud of an uncle who had invented Aero , a kind of chocolate with bubbles of air in it ( by accident , as it happened ) . |
| 16 | William John Tomlinson , whose forbears had been watermen and then boat builders , had turned his skills into property building and eventually he managed to acquire land of his own on which to develop houses . |
| 17 | All my life has been work and each other . ’ |
| 18 | What had driven the Company in the past had been technology and not the market . |
| 19 | And then , of course , Jill Yate knew very little about retailing or the fashion industry ; until a year before , her main interests had been rock and roll and the Beatles , and she fell upon the job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ as representing part of the faded Sixties pop culture she loved . |
| 20 | It was a normal delivery , with only a little entonox at the end — something I felt really happy about as our daughter had been breech and delivered by caesarean section after a horrid , induced labour . |
| 21 | 114 ) ; when a member of the court was a shareholder of the brewery company which owned the premises in question : R. V. Gee ( 1901 ) 17 T.L.R. 374 ; when three of the members of a compensation tribunal which refused the renewal of a licence had , along with their fellow justices , instructed a solicitor to oppose the renewal before the tribunal : Frome United Breweries v. Bath JJ. [ 1926 ] A.C. 586 ; when three members of the committee which granted and confirmed a licence had been shareholders and directors of the company on whose behalf the licence was applied for , although they resigned as directors and sold their shares before taking part in the proceedings : R. v. Hain ( 1896 ) 12 T.L.R. 323 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Old Testament kings had been warriors and conquerors , smiting their enemies , but they had also been vehicles through whom the law of God was interpreted and enforced . |
| 24 | The two big flops in the list have been Rolls-Royce and British Steel . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Its chief exports had been sponges and merchant seamen , and those brought in nothing in wartime . |
| 27 | This is probably because the focus of much of locality based history has been reproduction and the important political initiatives in relation to reproductive issues during the Second World War were national in origin and response . |
| 28 | It was only sexual jealousy that he felt , after all , because he had convinced himself that she and Florian had been lovers and probably would be again when this was over . |
| 29 | Breakfast had been fruit and coffee ; she 'd firmly resisted the croissants with butter and apricot jam . |
| 30 | In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery . |