Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There had been Sproggs living in the cottage for four generations , and the small triangle of green in front of the gate had been Sprogg 's Green for almost as long . |
| 32 | Early on the morning of March 4th , the remnants of the 33rd were mopped up and the fragmented stones that had once been Douaumont village fell to the Germans . |
| 33 | He has also been football representative on the Regional Committee of Staff Club ( Scotland ) for the past 15 years . |
| 34 | Cubby has been associated with the Dundee Club for over 30 years , and for the past 15 years or so has been football representative on the Regional Committee of the Sports Association/Staff Club . |
| 35 | He had served six years in the Cabinet under Muldoon , and had been opposition leader since 1986 . |
| 36 | This had long been Meredith Putt 's favourite ride . |
| 37 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
| 38 | ‘ There has been practice development activity for a long time within the bureau . |
| 39 | At all events , when the Conforama and Marchandise cases came before the European Court of Justice , Mr. Advocate General W. van Gerven ( who had also been Advocate General in the Torfaen case ) urged caution upon the European Court . |
| 40 | How much intimidation took place after the previous raid is hard to gauge , but in 1955 Charley Head , who had been signals officer with 3 Commando in March 1941 , revisited the islands and learnt that no one was shot after the March raid , although some houses had been burnt down . |
| 41 | Trudy Watt has been College Lecturer in Biological Statistics at St. John 's College , Oxford . |
| 42 | Duuck has been Club Champion in the Netherlands in 1982 , 1983 and 1984 . |
| 43 | He has also been Club Professional at East Berks . |
| 44 | He had been Club Captain from 1914–1916 and was President from 1920–23 . |
| 45 | Lord Rathcreedan , who as Captain Cecil Norton had been Club Captain since 1914 , continued until 1921 , continued until 1921 and Mr. J.C . |
| 46 | This week by way of preparation , its been weight training for Ian Smith down in the Kingsholm gym . |
| 47 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
| 48 | Some of the earliest TV ‘ panellists ’ , who would later have been chat show hosts but were regulars on games like What 's My Line ? in the restricted TV hours of the 1950s , were well known columnists in the popular dailies . |
| 49 | All that slim , rounded , unclothed flesh I 'd seen — from the back — had not been girl flesh . |
| 50 | It 's been ice cold that 's why . |
| 51 | ‘ It has been Ivy week , ’ wrote Elizabeth . |
| 52 | The Paris appeals court ruled on April 13 that Paul Touvier , 77 , who under the wartime Vichy regime had been intelligence chief of the Milice ( pro-Nazi French militia ) in Lyon in 1943-44 , should not stand trial , on grounds of insufficient evidence , on five charges of crimes against humanity . |
| 53 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 54 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 55 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 56 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 57 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 58 | Relaxation of the small company audit requirement has been Institute policy since the debate resumed in 1985 . |
| 59 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 60 | Among recent subjects have been council house sales , public attitudes to embryo research and the effects of unemployment on young women . |