Example sentences of "had been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First there had been Dimsey Turner , and now there was the Reverend Morey . |
| 2 | I wish it had been Carole Lombard … |
| 3 | He had been Gerry Troy 's first recruit . |
| 4 | Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act . |
| 5 | William was born on Monday 9 April 1849 — the only one not to bear a middle Christian name , but then , of course , there had been William Titfords galore back to the 17th century , so the boy was in good company . |
| 6 | In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings . |
| 7 | In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings . |
| 8 | ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . ) |
| 9 | James Duke of York was unusually deeply interested in colonial affairs and colonial investment : apart from his ownership of what had been New Amsterdam , he was a governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company and of the Royal Africa Company , and several of the politicians at court invested in these companies and even held posts in them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These were the highest offices Arabs had held in the Israeli government since 1973 , when Abdel-Aziz Zoabi had been Deputy Minister of Health . |
| 12 | He had been deputy chairman and chairman-designate since November 1985 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The New Minister of finance , Sigbjoern Johnsen , had been deputy leader of the parliamentary finance committee since 1986 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Doguzhiyev ( a member of the small Adygey minority inhabiting the North Caucasus ) and Laverov had been Deputy Premiers . |
| 18 | had been Hull University 's social secretary and was a successful agent representing British and international artists . |
| 19 | They had been country people and I was taken off to visit relatives and friends in Shepley and Harewood , sucking mintoes as a treat . |
| 20 | That object had been Marc Vila . |
| 21 | On Oct. 18 the Bundesrat ( upper house ) unanimously elected Alfred Gomolka , Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , as its president for the coming year , the first holder of this office from what had been East Germany . |
| 22 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 23 | It is perhaps significant that none of the last four Lord Chief Justices — Lords Goddard , Parker , Widgery and Lane — had been law officers . |
| 24 | Margaret Thatcher had been Education Secretary a decade before , and was familiar with the soft upholstery of the senior common room at that time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If the house they referred to , thought Rufus , had been Wyvis Hall , why had they not said so ? |
| 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 | Previously its goal had been state sovereignty within a reformed Soviet Union . |
| 29 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 30 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |