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

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1 had been Hull University 's social secretary and was a successful agent representing British and international artists .
2 Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that .
3 In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year .
4 Ennis District Secretary since 1988 , John has been branch representative in several locations .
5 He has been branch representative in most of the branches in which he has worked .
6 Besides her present location , Joan has been branch representative in Ballynahinch where she joined the Bank in 1978 .
7 He has been branch representative in most branches in which he has worked and an Area Council member for 15 years .
8 There 's been curriculum development in the past and not a lot has happened with it … shelves are full of it .
9 Thorn confirmed Draper 's resignation yesterday , but denied it was a major problem as ‘ he 's been part time for years . ’
10 As expressed by Atiyah the ‘ weakening belief in the importance of the hortatory effect of the judicial process has been accompanied by , and has surely been part cause of , a change in the sense of justice itself .
11 There was a transparent sachet of something brown and thick , chocolate paste or miso ; one dried-up anchovy in an open tin , its coat of salt dried to a hard crust ; and a smear of something on a saucer that might once have been pesto sauce .
12 Suffice to say , however , that there has been noise deletion ( pertaining to the surface noise from both lacquer and tape masters ) and there has been adjustment of level by way of compensation .
13 The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure .
14 BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south .
15 Emmanuelli , 46 , a banker , had previously been PS treasurer .
16 Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 .
17 Koty had been Defence Minister until December 1991 [ see p. 38665 ; for February 1992 coup attempt see p. 38800 ] .
18 ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar .
19 Philip Greaves , had the portfolios of Public Works and Communications added to his existing responsibilities ; he was also Leader of the House of Assembly Warwick Franklin had hitherto been Agriculture Minister , where his tenure had been a controversial one .
20 He was replaced by Nouri Zorgati , who had been Agriculture Minister until 1991 .
21 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 .
22 Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Craft-level courses are equivalent to what would have been apprenticeship level .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 It 's always been Dersingham land since way back when . ’
29 If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull .
30 Alan Wheat has been Kansas City 's congressman since 1982 .
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