Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | His purge has been West Germany 's much-needed transfusion , as its 26,500 new citizens bring with them precious skills . |
| 4 | The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Leading the effort has been Tadahiro Sekimoto , chairman of NEC , Japan 's fourth biggest computer company . |
| 8 | This time around , the star has been Nikolaj Hubbe , and he , too , will leave at the end of the festival to join NYCB . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First founded in 1514 , the most famous pupil to date has been William Wilberforce , the slave law reformer . |
| 11 | The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity . |
| 15 | The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A key figure in the development of concepts of the life course has been Tamara Hareven . |
| 18 | Another has been Dr Samuel Postlethwait of Purdue , already mentioned in Chapter 2 , and who exemplifies a carefully pre-planned and programmed teaching approach , devised by a subject-specialist academic , and taking place ( as it happens ) in a laboratory not a library . |
| 19 | A prominent figure at conferences has been Dr Stafford North , who as Dean of instruction master-minded the elaborate Library Learning Center at Oklahoma Christian College , where every student had his own electronic study-carrel ( with random dial-access to a large collection of audio-tapes and other materials ) in which a large part of his education took place . |
| 20 | Foster , 54 , has been Bishop Auckland 's comfortably seated MP since 1979 . |
| 21 | The weakest performer after Brauner has been Salvador Dalí with a rise of 220% . |
| 22 | Until we next meet over the airwaves , this has been Lynne Cramer … ‘ |
| 23 | The Prime Minister of Greenland since the March 1991 election in Greenland [ see p. 38113 ] has been Lars Emil Johansen . |
| 24 | Even though experienced Australian batsmen like Marsh and Dean Jones ( before his second-innings 150 at Perth ) have flopped badly this summer at international level , perhaps the most disappointing has been Mark Waugh , who after his sensational century on debut against England at Adelaide last year was expected to forge a long-term place in the middle order . |
| 25 | This has been Eric Gill 's year , and 140 of his engravings are at Sally Hunter . |
| 26 | One publisher to burst in on the media scene has been Dorling Kindersley , which came to the market in October 1992 at a price of 165p , valuing it at £102m . |
| 27 | The best player by far in the Irish League this season has been Noel Bailie , not Paul Byrne . |
| 28 | Another focus of feminist debate has been Hilary Clinton , wife of the Democratic front-runner . |
| 29 | Their leader since the beginning has been Fr Joe Dunn . |
| 30 | The most positive step has been Steve Barwick 's final conversion to offcutters , very much in the style of his mentor Don Shepherd . |