Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | All agree that the main beneficiaries of the indigenization process have been the state functionaries and those few Nigerians who now sit on the boards of TNCs ( see Ake , 1985 ; Hoogvelt , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | At Martin Brundle 's lunch in London I discovered that Maurice Hamilton had been the Mastermind question-setter and he reported that if I thought answering them was hard , he had found setting them a good deal harder . |
| 3 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 4 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 5 | As I passed what had been the marshalling yard and sidings , I glanced at the rows of rusting buffer stops and rotting wooden buffer beams , and conjured up a picture of its lines of laden coal wagons waiting to be despatched and the coal empties waiting to be taken to the collieries to be filled . |
| 6 | Very recently , in the 1950s and 1960s , there have been the Rex cats and the Scottish Fold cat , and even more recently the Somali and the Burmilla , although these are little more than crosses . |
| 7 | Matters would have been made that much simpler had the guild clerk also been the parish clerk and it might well have been the case in some instances . |
| 8 | The thing that 's really helped enormously recently has been the Phoenix Centre and the development of the Phoenix Centre , and there 's room there for a lot of volunteers to work in various capacities . |
| 9 | There had been no guard rails and the men had had no experience or instructions to carry out the job . |
| 10 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 11 | The very existence of the interment camps had been a state secret and virtually all the materials on display would have been ‘ classified ’ before the recent revolution . |
| 12 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 13 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 14 | The whole area was no more than ten or fifteen years old , straggling along either side of what had once been a country road and ending messily with the shell of an unfinished building of some indeterminate nature . |
| 15 | He was the son of a woman who had been a nightclub singer and briefly married to Juan Gómez , that was all my tired mind seemed able to grasp . |
| 16 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
| 17 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 18 | Denis Smith says he 's always been a Stoke fan and his name always comes into the reckoning when the job is going and he 's made no secret of the fact that he 'd like to manage the club |
| 19 | Bill had been a Beatles roadie and then became a manager , of The Mojos and Badfinger — which is how he came to be the owner of studios in Denmark Street . |
| 20 | Noel Hayes , a stockbroker who in his time has been a building analyst and up until the beginnig of this year was head of sales at Citicorp-Scrimgeour Vickers , becomes chief executive and Sam Oxford , the former chairman of Magnet & Southerns , joins as a non-executive director . |
| 21 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
| 22 | For 15 years he 's been a warbirds enthusiast and would n't fly anything else … |
| 23 | There had been a gas explosion and there were several casualties . |
| 24 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |
| 25 | Before the war , it had been a fruit market and bus station ; one side of its nineteenth-century Levantine façade had served as the entrance to the souk . |
| 26 | He had been a mining engineer and away for months at a time . |
| 27 | General practice research has been a minority activity and underfunded in the past |
| 28 | He had also been a division president and group vice-president of Aydin Corporation , a computer systems and controls organization and a founder and executive vice-president of Delta Data Systems for close to ten years . |
| 29 | The victims have been a prison officer and three Roman Catholic civilians , one of them a woman . |
| 30 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |