Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Steve , one of the reasons you 've been quiet with me lately — ’ more than quiet , she thought , stone-cold , dead to me' — one of the reasons has been Joe , has n't it ? |
| 2 | Most surprising addition has been Lockheed YF–117A stealth fighter 79–10781 , one of the only two YK–117s built , the other was written off in May 1978 . |
| 3 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |
| 4 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 5 | A key figure in the development of concepts of the life course has been Tamara Hareven . |
| 6 | Hong Kong 's achievement in Catania has been Simpkin 's first success since he took over the Hong Kong representative side . |
| 7 | Also singled out for particular censure has been Mozart 's wife Constanze , who has often been accused of hastening her husband 's early death through her sluttishness , extravagance , and inability to keep the household finances in order . |
| 8 | Another notable event was the admission of Joanna Innes as Senior Proctor , the first time a Fellow of Somerville has been Proctor . |
| 9 | An example of this typecasting has been US alto-saxophonist Lee Konitz , customarily referred to as ‘ Doyen of the Cool School ’ . |
| 10 | This conforms to the national situation , where Germany has been Scotland 's top market since 1988 . |
| 11 | Its first post-cold war opportunity has been President Bush 's occupation of Panama in December 1989 . |
| 12 | A seminal influence in this style of thinking has been Gilbert Ryle 's exposure of the category mistake , which implies that the most logically organized case may crumble because it turns out to depend on unnoticed analogies . |
| 13 | A new member of the Executive Committee as Wexford Area Secretary , David has been Wexford District Secretary since 1987 and a branch representative since 1977 . |
| 14 | The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills . |
| 15 | One of Britain 's most happening hip hop crews in the last 12 months has been Ronin , whose multi-media interests are now more fully embracing clothing . |
| 16 | His rich vein of form has come after a winter which saw him left out of the West Indies World Cup team … their loss has been Gloucestershire 's gain . |
| 17 | If that one horse had been Milton , it would have been different , of course . ’ |
| 18 | When Anthony Eden resigned the premiership in broken health in January 1957 , the two obvious contenders had been R.A. Butler and Harold Macmillan . |
| 19 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 20 | His first stab at an Open Championship was at St Andrews in 1957 with Laurie Ayton , whose uncle David had been Tip 's golf teacher . |
| 21 | His adviser had been Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 22 | ( His British predecessor in such technical study had been Thomas Hardy ; but that is another , and difficult , topic . ) |
| 23 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 24 | The words had been Sandor 's before he died and Rostov wondered if the assassin had ever suspected that he too was scheduled for termination once he completed his assigned task . |
| 25 | The owner of the Fender amplifier had been Chris Cornell , singer with Soundgarden , who is a guest located on the 15th floor . |
| 26 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 27 | Waddy had been Australia 's 12th man against England in the fifth Test in 1907–08 , having scored a century and a half-century against them for NSW in the previous match . |
| 28 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 29 | The battered instrument had been Paddy Byrne 's most treasured possession and he had played it like a genius when his belly was full of beer . |
| 30 | We might expect such a king to have been beatified upon his death ( his ancestor had been St Arnulf ) but Charles ' indifference to Christian morality prevented this . |