Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I was going to 've been Suzanne Brown , years ago , before he stole my bag . |
| 2 | It should 've been Concorde . |
| 3 | so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no . |
| 4 | ‘ It must 've been Helga . |
| 5 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 6 | Also singled out for particular censure has been Mozart 's wife Constanze , who has often been accused of hastening her husband 's early death through her sluttishness , extravagance , and inability to keep the household finances in order . |
| 7 | Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy . |
| 8 | His purge has been West Germany 's much-needed transfusion , as its 26,500 new citizens bring with them precious skills . |
| 9 | The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) . |
| 10 | The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Leading the effort has been Tadahiro Sekimoto , chairman of NEC , Japan 's fourth biggest computer company . |
| 13 | The Royal Oak has been Knutsford 's main hotel ever since it was built in the 1890s . |
| 14 | A well-kept secret until recently has been Watts 's rendering of The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin , in the Country of Arcadia ( Northampton , n.d. ) , from the French of 1735 , reprinted 1788 , of G. H. Bougeant ) , a spirited and intricate blend of romance and mock-romance . |
| 15 | THIS has been Germany 's year . |
| 16 | This time around , the star has been Nikolaj Hubbe , and he , too , will leave at the end of the festival to join NYCB . |
| 17 | An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down . |
| 18 | First founded in 1514 , the most famous pupil to date has been William Wilberforce , the slave law reformer . |
| 19 | The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills . |
| 20 | One of the most enthusiastic authorities taking up housing action trusts has been Liverpool city council . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They base their prognosis on the aggressive new product development and marketing that has been Cadbury 's hallmark in recent years . |
| 24 | The programme opens with While Shepherds Watched sung to the tune of ‘ On Ilkley Moor Bah't 'At ’ , and an interview with the man who has been Santa Claus to generations of children travelling on the Worth Valley Railway 's ‘ Santa Specials ’ : Jack Rowell , who lives on the railway in the Station House overlooking its terminus at Oxenhope . |
| 25 | His second guru has been Shostakovich , for the sheer power of his expression , and , because , like every true artist ‘ he stood up firmly on his own cultural earth ’ . |
| 26 | Rogan , who has been Sunderland 's discovery of the season since being switched to the centre of defence by Crosby three months after his £350,000 transfer from Celtic , reverted to left back in the 2–2 draw at Brighton , when his first goal for the club salvaged a priceless point . |
| 27 | Undoubtedly the most popular , indeed cuddly , alien of recent years has been ET — perhaps Gremlins ( 1984 ) was even conceived partly as an ‘ answer ’ to ET . |
| 28 | In recent years it has been Ian Rush who has been the scourge of Everton but this time he turned provider to send the Israeli international through a dumbfounded Everton defence . |
| 29 | It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity . |
| 30 | The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet . |