Example sentences of "been [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 2 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 3 | His three consecutive victims , incidentally , had been M. J. K. Smith , Peter Walker and Fred Trueman . |
| 4 | In fact the commonest cause of death on the hill in the last three years in the Lake District has been heart attacks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year . |
| 7 | For example , Figure 8.5 shows that this can vary from landscape improvement to recreation , and that the two main spatial units have been kilometre squares and landscape tracts ( Penning-Rowsell , 1975 ) . |
| 8 | Ennis District Secretary since 1988 , John has been branch representative in several locations . |
| 9 | He has been branch representative in most of the branches in which he has worked . |
| 10 | Besides her present location , Joan has been branch representative in Ballynahinch where she joined the Bank in 1978 . |
| 11 | He has been branch representative in most branches in which he has worked and an Area Council member for 15 years . |
| 12 | There 's been curriculum development in the past and not a lot has happened with it … shelves are full of it . |
| 13 | However , the only unauthorised visitors appear to have been souvenir hunters and men foraging among the stores . |
| 14 | Thorn confirmed Draper 's resignation yesterday , but denied it was a major problem as ‘ he 's been part time for years . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure . |
| 19 | BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south . |
| 20 | Emmanuelli , 46 , a banker , had previously been PS treasurer . |
| 21 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 22 | Koty had been Defence Minister until December 1991 [ see p. 38665 ; for February 1992 coup attempt see p. 38800 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was replaced by Nouri Zorgati , who had been Agriculture Minister until 1991 . |
| 25 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 26 | In recent years , all her wars had been frontier battles , fought round her coasts to repel raiders and oust alien settlements . |
| 27 | There had been car break-ins in the area but there was nothing to connect Wolfenden with them . |
| 28 | There have been research monographs on corporate crime and law enforcement processes in America ( Clinard and Yeager 1980 ) , Australia ( Hopkins 1978 ) , Britain ( Carson 1981 ; Carson and Martin 1974 ) , and Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Even with modest opposition , the St Leger had never been trainer Vincent O'Brien 's idea of a suitable warm-up for the Arc . |
| 30 | 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 . |