Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 2 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 3 | Johnson , who had been assistant coach with the national under-21 team , is now the backs ' mentor with Scotland ‘ B ’ as well as succeeding Dixon as Glasgow 's district coach . |
| 4 | The Board appointed Mr. G. Chaplin and Miss Anne Reid , who had been assistant master and matron respectively at the Hackney Union , but it was conditional on their being married ( to one another ) by July . |
| 5 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 6 | He 's been Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside and was the Deputy Chief Constable of Lancashire before coming to Gloucestershire in ninteen eighty seven . |
| 7 | Dick had been assistant editor of the New Statesman from 1938 to 1955 and , as has already been explained , was no friend of the leading men of the Labour party in the years after the War . |
| 8 | The appointment went , however , to William Clark , a married man aged 32 , who had been assistant overseer and vestry clerk at Eaton Socon . |
| 9 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 10 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 11 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 12 | There has been scanty analysis of either the individual members of the household 's different structural relationship to housing , or of households that do not comply with the nuclear family model . |
| 13 | ‘ HAVE been sweating blood over the question of what is right and feasible to do . |
| 14 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 15 | Since the weekend , there has been ample sign that they and those who share their views are little inclined to let the matter die down . |
| 16 | We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming . |
| 17 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 18 | But John-William had bought so much land at Far Flatley from Colonel Covington-Pym , a whole bank of his river and several fields beyond that there would have been ample room to build Gemma and Tristan a dear little nest . |
| 19 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 20 | Replacing either of them — and they ran the series as a sort of family business the Marks and Spencer of movie comedy — would have been professional suicide . |
| 21 | Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts . |
| 22 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |
| 23 | Robertson 's drive over the bar and Klinsmann 's shot , astutely blocked by Walker , ensured that there would have been adolescent opposition to the idea of an early exit while there was so much to appreciate . |
| 24 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |
| 25 | Now that 's unusual , because for the last five or six budgets have always been Labour/Liberal Democrat budgets . |
| 26 | There has been conflicting evidence concerning the occurrence of DGR in both normal controls and in association with gastric ulcers . |
| 27 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 28 | He became an MP in 1974 , joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1985 , and since then has been agricultural minister ( surviving the Edwina Currie salmonella in eggs scare ) , Education Secretary , Leader of the House and now transport . |
| 29 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 30 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |