Example sentences of "been the [noun] [noun] [conj] " 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 | No. 3 , St James 's Street has been the company premises since it was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and the name Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd. , as it is now known , was established in 1943 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 5 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It may not have been the plane journey that got to him , of course . |
| 8 | He may have been the Richard Whit or White matriculated at Magdalen Hall , Oxford , in 1584 , though this is not certain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It might have been the ward sister or the staff nurse . |
| 14 | We passed through what had been the city centre but now the main street was a narrow , bumpy lane and the sides piled up with rubble . |
| 15 | It could quite easily have been the job connection that led to her life-long friendship with comedian , Jimmy Tarbuck . |