Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than a minute later , Howard Bingham , who has been Ali 's personal photographer and best friend for nearly 30 years , appears in the doorway . |
| 2 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 3 | We are in the early stages of developing a day-case surgery/five-day ward and would be very interested to hear from anyone who has been part of a similar project . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rogan , who has been Sunderland 's discovery of the season since being switched to the centre of defence by Crosby three months after his £350,000 transfer from Celtic , reverted to left back in the 2–2 draw at Brighton , when his first goal for the club salvaged a priceless point . |
| 6 | I AM indebted to John Moorey from Portsmouth who has been kind enough to fill me in with some of the details of the extraordinary golfing life of Mary Toogood , nee Johnson , who died earlier this year . |
| 7 | Which would suggest that it might be rash to release Mr Sisulu , who has been secretary general of the ANC since 1949 , at this stage . |
| 8 | Stuart Webb , who has been secretary , chairman and managing director during 21 years at Derby was unanimously voted out as associate director after constant conflict with the board . |
| 9 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 10 | Mr Deighton , who has been chairman since the club 's formation , said : ‘ I feel honoured and pleased that I can officially keep close ties with the club . ’ |
| 11 | Terence Flanagan , who has been principal of the flagship college for the last six years , takes up his new post in September . |
| 12 | John Evans , who has been Captain of the golf society since it started , stood down as he will be retiring next year . |
| 13 | Haydn Dalton , 60 , who has been manager of the town 's Odeon for over 20 years , started his career as a trainee at the Leeds ' Majestic in the 1950s . |
| 14 | Hilary Weedon , who has been teacher 2nd and 3rd P.E . |
| 15 | It is a cruel twist of fate for a player who has been Leicester 's first choice since his £50,000 move from Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 16 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |
| 17 | Professor Anthony Jones , who has been President of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago since 1986 , is the new appointment as the Rector of the Royal College of Art . |
| 18 | Awarded the MBE is Meurig Davies , 54 , of Deganwy , who has been coxswain of Llandudno Lifeboat since 1970 , and retires next April after 30 years service . |
| 19 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 20 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
| 21 | Stroud , who 'd been Stokle 's common law wife , planned to claim life insurance . |
| 22 | Er , one of the things that I I I do wish hand-book writers would er , do , is to erm , write whenever practical , to seek out the strength of the group , at the beginning , so , that for example , how mu if there are those of us who 've been magistrates or been before the court , or involved in legal processes . |
| 23 | We 've been following a group through in Glasgow who 've been H , on H R T now for twenty three years ! |
| 24 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 25 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 26 | The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest . |
| 27 | These trained workers are preparing the Ark centre , near Oxford for the arrival of youngsters , who 've been victims of sexual abuse . |
| 28 | She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year . |
| 29 | Indeed Samuel et al reported that when HBIG was administered on a regular basis in the first two years after liver transplantation to 100 patients who had been serum HBsAg positive , HBsAg reappeared in 22.7% only . |
| 30 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |