Example sentences of "[noun] have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A key figure in the development of concepts of the life course has been Tamara Hareven . |
| 5 | British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 6 | An example of this typecasting has been US alto-saxophonist Lee Konitz , customarily referred to as ‘ Doyen of the Cool School ’ . |
| 7 | Its first post-cold war opportunity has been President Bush 's occupation of Panama in December 1989 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since its inception a major programme has been teacher placements with the partnership becoming host to the teacher placement organiser for Mid Glamorgan . |
| 11 | The traditional external source of funds has been bank loans , and despite some recent reduction in bank dependence as internal reserves or retained profits have increased in importance , higher levels of bank debt is still a characteristic of Japanese company finance . |
| 12 | The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills . |
| 13 | I happen for my sins to have been shadow Chancellor since the last election in 1987 , during which period there have been three Chancellors of the Exchequer . |
| 14 | When Anthony Eden resigned the premiership in broken health in January 1957 , the two obvious contenders had been R.A. Butler and Harold Macmillan . |
| 15 | His adviser had been Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 16 | Engstrom had been Deputy Finance Minister until 11 days previously when he became interim Finance Minister on Kjell-Olof Feldt 's resignation from the caretaker government . |
| 17 | ( His British predecessor in such technical study had been Thomas Hardy ; but that is another , and difficult , topic . ) |
| 18 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 19 | All were CPSU members and Yazov , Yanayev and Kryuchkov had been politburo members , though after the reorganization of the party in July 1990 [ see p. 37614-17 ] , following the March abolition of its constitutional monopoly on power [ see p. 37299 ] , government ministers could no longer be on the party 's ruling bodies . |
| 20 | The owner of the Fender amplifier had been Chris Cornell , singer with Soundgarden , who is a guest located on the 15th floor . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Among those who have studied at the University in past centuries have been James Boswell and Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell , Joseph Lister and James Simpson , Walter Scott , Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle . |
| 25 | For example , Figure 8.5 shows that this can vary from landscape improvement to recreation , and that the two main spatial units have been kilometre squares and landscape tracts ( Penning-Rowsell , 1975 ) . |
| 26 | Very broadly , the accountants determine whether the right accounting methods have been usedfor instance in dealing with such matters as rates of depreciation and work-in-progress . |
| 27 | Among recent subjects have been council house sales , public attitudes to embryo research and the effects of unemployment on young women . |
| 28 | Elected to the board in the past twelve months have been Steve Ahearne , Rodney Chase and Bryan Sanderson ( managing directors ) and Dr Karen Horn ( non-executive ) . |
| 29 | Previous Asian winners have been Salman Rushdie and Ruth Prawerjhabvala . |
| 30 | 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 . |