Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most enthusiastic authorities taking up housing action trusts has been Liverpool city council . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Joe was Limerick District President 1975–78 and has been Waterford District President since 1990 . |
| 4 | Since 1986 she has been Cavan District Secretary . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Since 1987 Elma has been Derry Area Ladies ' Representative . |
| 7 | Professor Williams has been Rouse Hall Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge since 1983 and President of Wolfson College since 1980 . |
| 8 | An example of this typecasting has been US alto-saxophonist Lee Konitz , customarily referred to as ‘ Doyen of the Cool School ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of it has been Sunday League stuff — and that is with due respect to anyone in the Sunday League . |
| 10 | A major contributory factor to this has been excise duty discrimination against spirits , particularly that in favour of imported wine . |
| 11 | Since July 1985 Herbie has been Armagh Area Secretary . |
| 12 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 13 | ‘ There has been practice development activity for a long time within the bureau . |
| 14 | He has been Group Chief Executive of Cadbury Schweppes since 1984 and will shortly become Chairman . |
| 15 | She was first elected branch representative in 1987 and has been Clonmel District Secretary since 1988 . |
| 16 | Some of the earliest TV ‘ panellists ’ , who would later have been chat show hosts but were regulars on games like What 's My Line ? in the restricted TV hours of the 1950s , were well known columnists in the popular dailies . |
| 17 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 18 | In 1936 Fox was appointed government chemist , having been deputy government chemist from 1929 . |
| 19 | The major factor in the deaths seems to have been polystyrene ceiling tiles in the kitchen and living room . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Colin MacFarlane , professor of shipping and marine technology at Strathclyde University , said there had been oil industry resistance to workforce participation in safety discussions before the outcome of the Cullen inquiry . |
| 22 | There was no street number but in Beirut , years later , David Damiani could remember that his postal address had been Post Office Box No. 582 . |
| 23 | We 've been Christmas shopping granddad . |
| 24 | Eurosterling bonds were first issued in 1972 ; they have all the characteristics of eurobonds rather than those of domestic or bulldog bonds , and the main issuers have been UK building societies , seeking long-term funds to finance their home loans . |
| 25 | The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure . |
| 26 | Among recent subjects have been council house sales , public attitudes to embryo research and the effects of unemployment on young women . |
| 27 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |