Example sentences of "have been [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Alexanders , the jewellers , have been a Rolex concessionaire for over forty years now enabling us to offer you a service that we firmly believe is second to none . |
2 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
3 | All my life I have been a 7ft woman trying to get out . ’ |
4 | The Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands have been a United Kingdom dependent territory since right of sovereignty was claimed in 1833 , when a British naval captain expelled an Argentine force . |
5 | Many people have strong views on whether or not the nationalized industries have been a success story . |
6 | It must , he concluded , have been a Gooseneck invention . |
7 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
8 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
9 | Swindon finished fifth Leicester sixth … on equal points … but if anything City have been a bogie team … |
10 | Surviving companions have been a 40cm lungfish , two 30cm gars and a couple of plecos . |
11 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
12 | Although residential and day-care staff have been a priority target for training in many departments , the vast majority are untrained , except for the offices in charge . |
13 | ‘ I have been a consumer researcher for so long that I am Consumer Correspondent always on the look-out for a new subject to investigate . ’ |
14 | We have been a nation state for a very long time . |
15 | To both the Chinese and the Japanese , carp have been a food source for centuries . |
16 | It was recorded as a fulling mill , although it may at least in part have been a grist mill . |
17 | Brentford have been a bogey team for both our sides this season . |
18 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a Birkenhead landmark for many years . |
19 | The victims have been a prison officer and three Roman Catholic civilians , one of them a woman . |
20 | There have been no January records . |
21 | There have been no Lotus world champions since then but Ayrton Senna ( Bra ) is hoping to join the long list of past champions . |
22 | Things are already remarkably ripe , even though there have been no air frosts yet . |
23 | There have been no mortality trials of adequate sample size to assess the role of heparin as sole adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis . |
24 | It was n't put here , unfortunately of course in this case there have been no witness statements exchanged . |
25 | This year , in St Petersburg alone , there have been an army colonel , two Communist Party officials , a university teacher and a tax collector kidnapped . |
26 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
27 | In a special three-year programme , supported by WACC , the Lanka Guardian aims to help restore the moral values , human rights and spirituality which , in the past , have been the foundation stones of Sri Lankan society . |
28 | These have been the building blocks of client server . |
29 | This year , amongst our more substantial projects have been the Law Commission 's papers on Rape within Marriage , Privity of Contract and Offences against the Person ; the Home Office 's proposals on Squatting ; the EC Package Travel Directive , the City 's Legal Risk Review Committee paper ‘ Reducing Uncertainty ’ , and the Consumer Association 's paper on professional negligence . |
30 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |