Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A member of the Socialist Unity Party ( PSU , until October 1990 the Socialist Party ( PSI ) — see p. 37786 ) , Vassalli had been Justice Minister since July 1987 [ see p. 35589 ] . |
| 6 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 7 | Mr Storm has been Town Clerk of Nairn for forty-two years . |
| 8 | Professor Williams has been Rouse Hall Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge since 1983 and President of Wolfson College since 1980 . |
| 9 | A main source of the original allegations against Beron had been Konstantin Trenchev , chair of the UDF-affiliated Podkrepa trade union . |
| 10 | Lord Rathcreedan , who as Captain Cecil Norton had been Club Captain since 1914 , continued until 1921 , continued until 1921 and Mr. J.C . |
| 11 | Working with Rowbotham on Agitprop had been John Hoyland . |
| 12 | And it had been while McGrath had been features editor that Peace News had carried the spread extolling Ginsberg 's London readings , and the big page feature on the Albert Hall gathering . |
| 13 | Amongst those saying goodbye to Ferrier in Sydney had been Richard Neville . |
| 14 | Lizzie Stroud had been Great-Aunt Alicia 's maid for as long as Sara could remember . |
| 15 | William Jackson had been production manager with one of the largest carpet manufacturing firms in the area , with a worldwide reputation for quality carpets . |
| 16 | A Moslem from West Nile province , Ali had been Finance Minister in the Idi Amin regime but went into exile before Amin 's overthrow , joining the Museveni government as Tourism and Wildlife Minister in 1986 . |
| 17 | Trudy Watt has been College Lecturer in Biological Statistics at St. John 's College , Oxford . |
| 18 | For more than 20 years John Glendinning has been chess correspondent for the Scotsman newspaper . |
| 19 | The weakest performer after Brauner has been Salvador Dalí with a rise of 220% . |
| 20 | If you were a " Sir " then the name just after that was your first name , so that must be the surname … and Christian name was easy because Christ had been Jesus Christ , so obviously therefore the Christian name was the second name … and that was how you could tell . |
| 21 | For instance , one important factor put forward to explain the growth of trade union membership among white collar workers in Britain has been government policy which created a favourable climate for such union expansion . |
| 22 | In fact the commonest cause of death on the hill in the last three years in the Lake District has been heart attacks . |
| 23 | Since 1987 Elma has been Derry Area Ladies ' Representative . |
| 24 | Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta . |
| 25 | Margaret Thatcher had been Education Secretary a decade before , and was familiar with the soft upholstery of the senior common room at that time . |
| 26 | Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill . |
| 27 | The principles of Marxist-Leninism had been state ideology until a policy change by the ruling Frelimo movement in 1989 [ see p. 36804 ] . |
| 28 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 29 | Besides her present location , Joan has been branch representative in Ballynahinch where she joined the Bank in 1978 . |
| 30 | These were the highest offices Arabs had held in the Israeli government since 1973 , when Abdel-Aziz Zoabi had been Deputy Minister of Health . |