Example sentences of "been a [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought it must have been a road block because one said to the other : ‘ Go for it ’ and they speeded up . |
| 5 | It may have been a domus inclusa but is now a coal hole . |
| 6 | Perhaps he 'd planned it , perhaps it had n't been a lightning urge but the first of his traps . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
| 12 | ZIMBABWE 'S Lewis Nuridzo has been a scratch player since the age of 14 and called himself ‘ God 's child of fortune ’ after shooting a 71 on the first day of the Amateur championship at Royal Portrush where the winner collects only a trophy and medal , not money . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thirty-five-year-old stockbroker Clive Sinclair-Poulton , bottom right , has always been a Metro owner but readily admits that the new GTi surpasses all its predecessors . |
| 15 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 16 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 17 | Harris , who had been a cavalry trooper before a French cannonball had crushed his left foot at the battle of Corunna , laughed at the naivety of the question . |
| 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 | ‘ You have to have been a variety artist or a dependant , ’ says Elliott , formerly a dancer and the late Dick Emery 's manager . |
| 21 | Shreeves , who had two years in charge during the mid-Eighties , had been a surprise reappointment as team manager after Venables moved upstairs last summer . |
| 22 | The narrower part , c. 3 m ( 10 ft ) wide , running the full length of the north side , could have been a service corridor or store for fodder ; alternatively , this could have housed up to 15 or more horses , with the wider section accommodating carts , wagons , fodder or other stores . |
| 23 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For 15 years he 's been a warbirds enthusiast and would n't fly anything else … |
| 27 | There had been a gas explosion and there were several casualties . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had been a mining engineer and away for months at a time . |