Example sentences of "have been [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only addition to the crowded airwaves in the past year to have significantly demonstrated all three has been Radio 4 News FM . |
| 2 | Mr Dignum , 52 , has been group financial director since 1988 and was appointed finance director of the stores in January . |
| 3 | He wanted to live , he 'd put in long years , he 'd been champion three times , it no longer excited him to race , this was it , goodbye and thanks . |
| 4 | In 1987 he joined Guinness as director of financial control for Guinness PLC , after having been group financial controller for Midland Bank . |
| 5 | Montgomerie badly wants to finish his season with a win , having been runner-up four times , including the Dunhill Cup team tournament . |
| 6 | It is believed to have been No. 11 E , then renumbered 355 , with the L.C.C . |
| 7 | Rashid Akhtarini became Deputy Prime Minister for Service Affairs in place of Mahmud Qaddur , who had been Deputy Prime minister for Public Affairs . |
| 8 | In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign . |
| 9 | Yet all was glitter in this room , as it had been glitter two months ago when she had been so happy . |
| 10 | The trawler had been fishing five miles off the coast in international waters but within the prohibited area . |
| 11 | Ian had been Group Financial Controller since he joined the company in 1989 . |
| 12 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 13 | It was over for weeks ago that we last publishd a programe , as finansises have been moch two tite for such extragavance . |