Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I was going to 've been Suzanne Brown , years ago , before he stole my bag . |
| 2 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 3 | The Police 's long term answer has been Operation Overdrive . |
| 4 | His purge has been West Germany 's much-needed transfusion , as its 26,500 new citizens bring with them precious skills . |
| 5 | The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) . |
| 6 | The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses . |
| 7 | Editorial director Anne Furniss approached the RHS with the suggestion for the new series ; project editorial manager has been Jane O'Shea , and art editor has been Ann Burnham . |
| 8 | Leading the effort has been Tadahiro Sekimoto , chairman of NEC , Japan 's fourth biggest computer company . |
| 9 | This time around , the star has been Nikolaj Hubbe , and he , too , will leave at the end of the festival to join NYCB . |
| 10 | An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down . |
| 11 | First founded in 1514 , the most famous pupil to date has been William Wilberforce , the slave law reformer . |
| 12 | The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills . |
| 13 | British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 14 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 15 | One of the most enthusiastic authorities taking up housing action trusts has been Liverpool city council . |
| 16 | It is clear that the proximate cause has been government action . |
| 17 | For instance , one important factor put forward to explain the growth of trade union membership among white collar workers in Britain has been government policy which created a favourable climate for such union expansion . |
| 18 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 19 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 20 | In this situation during anaesthesia the laryngeal mask has been life saving . |
| 21 | By far the greatest part of maintenance research developed by institutions of state for marginal areas has been soil conservation techniques ( outlined in Ch. 5 ) , which , as this book shows , have had to be imposed by colonial powers to be ‘ induced ’ at all . |
| 22 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 23 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 24 | The programme opens with While Shepherds Watched sung to the tune of ‘ On Ilkley Moor Bah't 'At ’ , and an interview with the man who has been Santa Claus to generations of children travelling on the Worth Valley Railway 's ‘ Santa Specials ’ : Jack Rowell , who lives on the railway in the Station House overlooking its terminus at Oxenhope . |
| 25 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 26 | Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity . |
| 29 | The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet . |
| 30 | Joe was Limerick District President 1975–78 and has been Waterford District President since 1990 . |