Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Where they men who had been quarry men ? |
| 3 | The last time there was a serious battle for the post was 1951 , when Mr W S Morrison , Conservative MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury , was elected , defeating Major J Milner , Labour MP for Leeds South East , who had been deputy Speaker in the previous Parliament . |
| 4 | When , in March 1950 the State Department , under strong Congressional urging , had sent its aid survey mission to Southeast Asia it was headed by Mr R. Allen Griffin , a Californian newspaper publisher and editor , who had been deputy chief of the US Aid Mission to China . |
| 5 | When in November 1990 Sir George Blunden , who had been Deputy Governor of the Bank of England , was appointed chairman of The Money Advice Trust ( created in January of that year ) , the aim was to raise £6 million for the purpose . |
| 6 | But a former official who had been Lady Thatcher 's senior advisor , warned of the dangers of America turning aside from Europe . |
| 7 | He was replaced by Nouri Zorgati , who had been Agriculture Minister until 1991 . |
| 8 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 9 | In the meantime however , it has managed to recruit itself a vice president of marketing : Arum Taneja , who had been Vicom president , worldwide marketing for Convergent Technology Corp and a career that included Sun Microsystems Inc , Data General Corp and IBM Canada . |
| 10 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 11 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 12 | They were de Maizière , Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , erstwhile ( CDU ) president of the Volkskammer and acting East German head of state , Günther Krause , also of the CDU , who had been de Maizière 's state secretary and a key negotiator of the terms of unification , Rainer Ortleb , vice-president of the unified FDP , and Hansjoachim Walther of the DSU . |
| 13 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 14 | How much intimidation took place after the previous raid is hard to gauge , but in 1955 Charley Head , who had been signals officer with 3 Commando in March 1941 , revisited the islands and learnt that no one was shot after the March raid , although some houses had been burnt down . |
| 15 | He was not like the saints you read about who had been parish priests . |
| 16 | Stefan , a thin , grey-faced , middle-aged man with stomach ulcers who had been production manager since the Hochhauser Season had begun , sat down at the table , looked at the balance sheet and the final sentence at the bottom and took a bottle of tablets from his pocket . |
| 17 | Roosevelt sent Winston Churchill a report on Iran by Major General Patrick Hurley , who had been President Hoovers secretary of war , and had visited Iran in May 1943 . |
| 18 | One was Lord Parker ( who had just retired as Lord Chief Justice ) and another was Lord Gardiner ( who had been Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 19 | McLeish threw it away and methodically sorted his notes ; he was not going near a top firm of solicitors without a very careful list of questions , and his first port of call that morning was to be Huttons , who had been Angela Morgan 's solicitors . |
| 20 | Ekrem Pakdemirli , who had been Finance Minister until March 1990 , became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State with responsibility for economic affairs . |
| 21 | Brooke Hayward was the daughter of actress Margaret Sullivan , who had been Henry Fonda 's first wife , and producer Leland Hayward . |
| 22 | A parliamentary inquiry eventually cleared him of the allegations in June , but investigations continued into the conduct of Erik Ninn Hansen , who had been Justice Minister at the time . |
| 23 | It was announced in mid-November that the United People 's Party ( UPP ) , the grouping formed by Hyundai conglomerate founder Chung Ju Yung , was to merge with the New Korea Party ( NKP ) which had been formed in October [ see p. 39142 ] by defectors from the political mainstream , most of whom had been DLP members who were opposed to the succession of Kim Young Sam . |