Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Figure 8.5 shows that this can vary from landscape improvement to recreation , and that the two main spatial units have been kilometre squares and landscape tracts ( Penning-Rowsell , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | However , the only unauthorised visitors appear to have been souvenir hunters and men foraging among the stores . |
| 3 | In the time of the Labour Government the Chief Secretary had been Joel Barnett and it was he who had forced Barbara Castle into her major and controversial changes . |
| 4 | The politics she had encountered had been trades councils and Young Socialist meetings ; the Americans wore beads , mumbled , talked about direct action . |
| 5 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
| 6 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 7 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 8 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 9 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 10 | Relaxation of the small company audit requirement has been Institute policy since the debate resumed in 1985 . |
| 11 | Since late July in cities across the country there had been work stoppages and demonstrations in protest at the lack of cigarettes , in many cases degenerating into rioting . |
| 12 | As Gilbert 's words faded , he was back at the Unit again , listening to the thing which had once been Dr Bissell as it said … |
| 13 | 2109 and 2113 had been war casualties and written off , five standard Felthams scrapped at Purley depôt as already described and in November 1950 , while the move was in progress , Nos. 2144 and 2162 caught fire and were burned out . |
| 14 | Of those English cricketers to have played in one-day internationals , the most successful have been Graham Gooch and Allan Lamb , both of whom average around 40 with the bat . |
| 15 | A more accurate term would have been desktop layout or desktop typesetting and page makeup but we 've been stuck with the words he used . |
| 16 | Its main proponent has been Martin Kane and I give some attention to his work in chapter three . |
| 17 | He joins the company from the Wellcome Foundation Limited , where he has been Group Risk and Insurance Manager for eleven years . |
| 18 | Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole . |
| 19 | When Anthony Eden resigned the premiership in broken health in January 1957 , the two obvious contenders had been R.A. Butler and Harold Macmillan . |
| 20 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 21 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 22 | He had been deputy chairman and chairman-designate since November 1985 . |
| 23 | He was replaced in an acting capacity by his arch-rival , the anti-communist Croatian Stipe Mesic , who had hitherto been Deputy President and who had anyway been due to succeed Jovic in May 1991 . |
| 24 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 25 | Previous Asian winners have been Salman Rushdie and Ruth Prawerjhabvala . |
| 26 | And it had been while McGrath had been features editor that Peace News had carried the spread extolling Ginsberg 's London readings , and the big page feature on the Albert Hall gathering . |
| 27 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 28 | The principles of Marxist-Leninism had been state ideology until a policy change by the ruling Frelimo movement in 1989 [ see p. 36804 ] . |
| 29 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 30 | The documents appear to have been working papers that were used for setting price caps for the authorities . |