Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His three consecutive victims , incidentally , had been M. J. K. Smith , Peter Walker and Fred Trueman . |
| 2 | ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . ) |
| 3 | The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure . |
| 4 | Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work . |
| 5 | Even with modest opposition , the St Leger had never been trainer Vincent O'Brien 's idea of a suitable warm-up for the Arc . |
| 6 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 7 | It was estimated that the average sum raised per branch member to finance the work of the Eastern District and its branches as a whole for the year had been £1 3s. 4d . |
| 8 | ‘ There has been practice development activity for a long time within the bureau . |
| 9 | Some of the earliest TV ‘ panellists ’ , who would later have been chat show hosts but were regulars on games like What 's My Line ? in the restricted TV hours of the 1950s , were well known columnists in the popular dailies . |
| 10 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 11 | A prominent figure at conferences has been Dr Stafford North , who as Dean of instruction master-minded the elaborate Library Learning Center at Oklahoma Christian College , where every student had his own electronic study-carrel ( with random dial-access to a large collection of audio-tapes and other materials ) in which a large part of his education took place . |
| 12 | Another has been Dr Samuel Postlethwait of Purdue , already mentioned in Chapter 2 , and who exemplifies a carefully pre-planned and programmed teaching approach , devised by a subject-specialist academic , and taking place ( as it happens ) in a laboratory not a library . |
| 13 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 14 | Among recent subjects have been council house sales , public attitudes to embryo research and the effects of unemployment on young women . |
| 15 | One of the main creative forces behind the Taste Sensation has been actor Anthony Daniels , last seen in a gold metallic suit as the robot C3PO in the Star Wars film series . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) . |
| 18 | There was no street number but in Beirut , years later , David Damiani could remember that his postal address had been Post Office Box No. 582 . |
| 19 | He has been Group Chief Executive of Cadbury Schweppes since 1984 and will shortly become Chairman . |
| 20 | Dr Helen Muir has since 1977 been Director ofthe Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and since 1982 has been Scientific Trustee of the Wellcome Trust . |
| 21 | His earliest ally had been Sir Robert Heath , who had promoted Vermuyden 's advancement at court , and had even managed to get him out of prison . |
| 22 | His second cousin had been Sir James Wyatt , ‘ the brilliant but facile ’ Surveyor General . |
| 23 | If Law had a political model , then it must have been Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a fellow Scot who had shown that an ordinary man could hold the highest office without discredit and that he could beat the clever and the politically sophisticated at their own game . |
| 24 | Paine 's successor was originally to have been Mr. W.H. Hardie , who had joined the staff in 1934 . |
| 25 | She was first elected branch representative in 1987 and has been Clonmel District Secretary since 1988 . |
| 26 | Their leader since the beginning has been Fr Joe Dunn . |
| 27 | Since 1987 Elma has been Derry Area Ladies ' Representative . |
| 28 | A major contributory factor to this has been excise duty discrimination against spirits , particularly that in favour of imported wine . |
| 29 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
| 30 | Jeremy Isaacs , former chief executive of Channel Four , challenged Mr Birt to name the mystery secretarial assistant to whom Mr Birt 's company paid a £15,000 salary , and who is now widely assumed to have been Mrs Jane Birt . |