Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 2 | The policewoman who has been comforting James 's parents said his mother Denise was still ‘ shellshocked ’ by the loss . |
| 3 | Allan Victor Jones , 51 , of Bangor , who has been chief fire officer of Gwynedd since 1989 is awarded the Queen 's Fire Service Medal . |
| 4 | Mary Shirley , a new teacher in the Kent area , is another trail-blazer who has been stirring interest with her special classes for the elderly and their carers . |
| 5 | who has been Senior Development Officer responsible for the Central Support Unit and co-ordinating the Advanced Courses Development Programme , is undertaking an evaluation of the programme and will be in contact with selected centres in due course . |
| 6 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 7 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
| 8 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
| 9 | The Board appointed Mr. G. Chaplin and Miss Anne Reid , who had been assistant master and matron respectively at the Hackney Union , but it was conditional on their being married ( to one another ) by July . |
| 10 | Johnson , who had been assistant coach with the national under-21 team , is now the backs ' mentor with Scotland ‘ B ’ as well as succeeding Dixon as Glasgow 's district coach . |
| 11 | The appointment went , however , to William Clark , a married man aged 32 , who had been assistant overseer and vestry clerk at Eaton Socon . |
| 12 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 13 | Vaclav Havel , who had been federal President from June 1989 until July 1992 [ see p. 39015 ] , on Nov. 17 confirmed his candidacy for the post of president of the Czech Republic . |
| 14 | The most helpful among the other members was E. H. E. Woodward , who had been general manager of one of the best private sector companies , the North-Eastern Electric Supply Co . |
| 15 | Blakeney , who had been general manager of the Egyptian State Railway from 1919 to 1923 , was responsible for organizing the tight-knit military discipline of the organization and for turning the BF into a limited company , the anglicized British Fascists Ltd , in 1924 . |
| 16 | She was the daughter of a respected and well-to-do burgess of Lynne ( as King 's Lynn was then called ) who had been five times Mayor , and Alderman of the High Guild of the Trinity . |
| 17 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
| 18 | At a meeting on July 23 , politicians who had been major figures in the pre-1980 period agreed to bring their respective political parties into a united front against President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) . |
| 19 | These were a Tartar people who had been traditional enemies of the Lombards and the Eastern Empire at Constantinople for generations . |
| 20 | Another relative and rector of the Patrimony was James , son of John Odoline , a cousin , and count of Andria , who had been papal marshal and commander of Innocent 's troops in Sicily in 1200 – 1201 , to whom he granted the fortress of Ninfa on the southern border . |
| 21 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 22 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Vítor Saúde María , who had been Prime Minister from May 1982 until his arrest in March 1984 on conspiracy charges [ see p. 32899 ] , and who was currently mayor of the capital , Bissau , was granted political asylum in Portugal on Nov. 2 while on an official mission . |
| 24 | Poati-Souchalaty , who had been Prime Minister since August 1989 , also resigned from the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) . |
| 25 | Omar Arteh Ghaleb , who had been Prime Minister of Somalia 's interim government since February , resigned on Aug. 20 ; Radio Mogadishu reported , however , that President Mahdi , who had been sworn in himself on Aug. 18 [ see p. 38323 ] , had asked him to continue with his responsibilities until a successor was appointed . |
| 26 | The most politically significant event in the year to mid-1991 was the replacement in November 1990 of Margaret Thatcher , who had been Prime Minister since 1979 and leader of the Conservative Party since 1975 by John Major [ see pp. 37839-40 ] . |
| 27 | In Slovakia the casualties ( at federal and republican level ) included the Civic Democratic Union ( formerly the Civic Democratic Union " Public against Violence " see p. 38831 ) , to which the outgoing Federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa belonged , and the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38831 ] , whose list was headed by Alexander Dubcek , the outgoing Federal Assembly chair who had been Prime Minister at the time of the 1968 " Prague Spring " . |
| 28 | Zubi , who had been Prime Minister since 1987 [ see pp. 36178-79 ] , was reported to have selected his new Cabinet after consultations with the leaderships of the five parties ( including the Ba'ath Party ) which were components of the National Progressive Front . |
| 29 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 30 | Free produce , like antislavery generally , received some publicity from the visit of Mrs Stowe and her husband in 1853 but ebbed in popularity when the Richardsons of Newcastle who had been prime propagandists for the movement had to withdraw in 1854 . |