Example sentences of "[been] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire .
2 It says because her boss would of been Kenneth Clarke is it ?
3 His three consecutive victims , incidentally , had been M. J. K. Smith , Peter Walker and Fred Trueman .
4 The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) .
5 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 .
6 William was born on Monday 9 April 1849 — the only one not to bear a middle Christian name , but then , of course , there had been William Titfords galore back to the 17th century , so the boy was in good company .
7 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 .
8 Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act .
9 ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . )
10 In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings .
11 In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings .
12 Further documentary evidence of his life and work is scanty , but because his will is listed with those in the parish of St Sepulchre , just outside the walls of the City , it has been suggested that his father may have been William Larkin , the host of the Rose inn in that parish .
13 First founded in 1514 , the most famous pupil to date has been William Wilberforce , the slave law reformer .
14 A key figure in the conspiracy was alleged to have been William Casey .
15 Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills .
16 Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) .
17 ‘ The person in New York you sent a letter to on Beatrix 's behalf-could her name have been van Ryneveld rather than van Ryan ? ’
18 It could have been Dan Dare in the nursing home .
19 One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last .
20 By contrast , although there have been disagreements Israel 's bond with the United States has been rock-solid , built upon agreement ‘ concerning the nature and extent of the Soviet threat to the region ’ .
21 I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea .
22 The sale of the cottage and the setting-up of the trust had been Colonel Smith 's doing .
23 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 .
24 His mother may have been Isabella Anderson .
25 A key figure in the development of concepts of the life course has been Tamara Hareven .
26 I ca n't for the life of me see how it could have been Sheila Williams he was with …
27 Fitzgerald was fascinated by the director type and in his story ‘ Mightier than the sword ’ he offered a portrait of a man who could well have been King Vidor :
28 And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard .
29 The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet .
30 In the time of the Labour Government the Chief Secretary had been Joel Barnett and it was he who had forced Barbara Castle into her major and controversial changes .
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