Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was replaced in an acting capacity by his arch-rival , the anti-communist Croatian Stipe Mesic , who had hitherto been Deputy President and who had anyway been due to succeed Jovic in May 1991 . |
| 3 | Jerzy Milewski , head of the National Security Office at the Presidential Chancellery , said that the plans had only been discussion documents , but on April 13 Walesa admitted that plans existed . |
| 4 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 5 | In the case of Canada , that centre has long been New York ’ . |
| 6 | Defence and foreign policy have long been bedrock attributes of the nation state , and each European nation has entrenched national attitudes and distinct national interests . |
| 7 | Some in the profession of political commentating would opt for Bagehot as their formative influence , but mine has long been Sir David — a founder of biased Tory journalism . |
| 8 | This had long been Meredith Putt 's favourite ride . |
| 9 | Between 1979 and 1989 the reduction in public-sector employment , extension of private home-ownership ( up from 55 per cent to 65 per cent ) and share-ownership ( up from 7 per cent to 22 per cent ) , increasing scope for private provision of services , and run-down of trade union membership ( down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the workforce ) have all been government objectives . |
| 10 | ‘ And Rhoda Brocklebank and Roxie Farmer and Shirley Place have all been spending money , ’ said Coffin . |
| 11 | So it would n't have just been insurance investigators ferreting about — it would have been the world 's press as well . |
| 12 | The primary energy source of industrialised countries has always been fossil fuels . |
| 13 | I 've always been Peter Pan . |
| 14 | I 've always been Peter Pan . |
| 15 | It had always been Jamie Reid 's belief that the Sex Pistols should be broken up after successfully scandalising the Jubilee . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've always been Athena customers , ’ he grins , in explanation of this enthusiasm . |
| 17 | His family had always been Delhi jewellers — his ancestors had served the Mughal emperors and before them the Delhi Sultans . |
| 18 | this season we 'll be cheering louder than ever for our three teams … in the new first division we 've got Oxford United … they 've new owners and new heart after escaping relegation … we 've first division football at the County ground as well … where style and skill have always been swindon town 's hallmarks … this time around they 're hoping for strength too … in division three Hereford United have been rebuilding … they 're going continental with a player-coach instead of a manager … so for the best season ticket sit down for Central South … . |
| 19 | Thursdays had always been bank day for Bill . |
| 20 | Such cut-and-thrust politicking has always been Mr Brown 's speciality . |
| 21 | The Wrights had always been classics masters at the great public schools , or clergymen . |
| 22 | We 've always been forest Romanies , but if Wychwood is to be chopped down Boz and the rest of us will have to take to the road . ’ |
| 23 | It 's always been Dersingham land since way back when . ’ |
| 24 | As Gilbert 's words faded , he was back at the Unit again , listening to the thing which had once been Dr Bissell as it said … |
| 25 | It had once been Chris Patten 's task to help Mrs Thatcher as she worked through the night . |
| 26 | The surviving floors , though , were of clay , which might imply that there had once been plank floors above them . |
| 27 | He was a spare aquiline man , who had once been court sculptor ( and perhaps unofficial jester ! ) to a mythical-sounding Ring Zog . |
| 28 | Angela , Lady Macleod , who had once been Angela Deverill and whom he had thought that he had loved more than life itself , picked up her parasol , an object as lovely and useless as she was . |
| 29 | Dexter remembered she had once been David Parkin 's lover . |
| 30 | She was a nice old soul , but she had once been Sister Hope for twenty years , as she never ceased to inform us . |