Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Britons were strong supporters of Albinus who had been the Governor of the Province , it follows that Severus would undoubtedly have dealt with them severely . |
| 2 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And it was Newton who had been the murderer . |
| 5 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 6 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 7 | Amnesty International is concerned about numerous reports of ill-treatment of ethnic Armenians during an operation by Soviet troops and Azerbaydzhani special police units ( OMON ) in April and May 1991 in areas of the Republic of Azerbaydzhan which have been the scene of ethnic violence . |
| 8 | On Aug. 6 David Levi , the Israeli Foreign Minister , gave the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee the details of a series of " understandings " with the USA which had been the basis of Israel 's conditional assent to attend the conference . |
| 9 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 10 | For several years here in Edinburgh you have been the presbytery 's World Mission and Unity convenor and then you became the convenor of the Board 's local involvement committee which links our congregations to people who work overseas in churches there with whom they serve . |
| 11 | This is somewhat ironical in that , as we shall see , it is Engels 's anthropological enthusiasm and his trust in Morgan which has been the source of many of the points in his work which appear now as unacceptable to anthropologists and which have been the cause of some of the most damaging objections to his theories . |