Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | He was replaced by Nouri Zorgati , who had been Agriculture Minister until 1991 . |
| 62 | Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work . |
| 63 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 64 | That object had been Marc Vila . |
| 65 | One publisher to burst in on the media scene has been Dorling Kindersley , which came to the market in October 1992 at a price of 165p , valuing it at £102m . |
| 66 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 67 | In recent years , all her wars had been frontier battles , fought round her coasts to repel raiders and oust alien settlements . |
| 68 | There had been car break-ins in the area but there was nothing to connect Wolfenden with them . |
| 69 | There have been research monographs on corporate crime and law enforcement processes in America ( Clinard and Yeager 1980 ) , Australia ( Hopkins 1978 ) , Britain ( Carson 1981 ; Carson and Martin 1974 ) , and Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ) . |
| 70 | It was June the fifteenth , and would have been Evan Roberts ' 85th birthday , but he died a month before . |
| 71 | Even with modest opposition , the St Leger had never been trainer Vincent O'Brien 's idea of a suitable warm-up for the Arc . |
| 72 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 73 | It had been headline news in the press for almost two weeks and had produced a paid television programme to put its point of view across . |
| 74 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 75 | Craft-level courses are equivalent to what would have been apprenticeship level . |
| 76 | The politics she had encountered had been trades councils and Young Socialist meetings ; the Americans wore beads , mumbled , talked about direct action . |
| 77 | Editorial director Anne Furniss approached the RHS with the suggestion for the new series ; project editorial manager has been Jane O'Shea , and art editor has been Ann Burnham . |
| 78 | We have already noted in our examination of CD-ROM markets ( see 2.7 ) that libraries have been pioneer users of CD-ROMs . |
| 79 | They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over . |
| 80 | ‘ A number of distinguished engineers have been Whitworth Scholars , and we expect this year 's award winners to be high achievers in their subsequent careers , ’ he said . |
| 81 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 82 | Amongst those saying goodbye to Ferrier in Sydney had been Richard Neville . |
| 83 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 84 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 85 | However , the COB Rules that are applied to these group activities will only apply if they would have been regulated business ( and so within the territorial scope of the SFA rules ) if they had in fact been investment business . |
| 86 | Someone from the Banco D'Oro was supposed to be meeting her , and this remote blond god certainly did n't look like a bank official — though he might have been Signor Corosini . |
| 87 | There is a lot of work ahead to check with other forces on what 's been stolen.The police will contact people who 've reported antiques stolen to tell them if they 've been recovered . |
| 88 | They had been Ping Tiao . |
| 89 | It 's always been Dersingham land since way back when . ’ |
| 90 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |