Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun prp] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even with modest opposition , the St Leger had never been trainer Vincent O'Brien 's idea of a suitable warm-up for the Arc . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His second cousin had been Sir James Wyatt , ‘ the brilliant but facile ’ Surveyor General . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Paine 's successor was originally to have been Mr. W.H. Hardie , who had joined the staff in 1934 . |
| 14 | Their leader since the beginning has been Fr Joe Dunn . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She 's been Mrs Reid Livesey for a fair time now . |
| 17 | I realized that the cheerfully forceful woman I had seen the day before must have been Mrs Maureen Kenny herself . |
| 18 | Lately it 's been Julian Schnabel time at Pace . |
| 19 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 20 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 21 | He may have been West Midlands Chief Constable when it 's squad was exposed for its creative-writing skills , but he was not to blame . |
| 22 | His only acquisition in that time has been full-back Gary Parkinson , currently on-loan from Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | He looked at the number plate and realized that he had found the sole piece of ostentation Miss Morgan had allowed herself ; she had been Angela Jane Morgan and the car was AJM 563 . |
| 24 | His godparents came from his mother 's side of the family , her brother Errol and Florence Court Treatt , who Grace thinks may have been Major Court Treatt 's mother ; also a friend , a government official named John Keith , after whom John was named . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister of Greenland since the March 1991 election in Greenland [ see p. 38113 ] has been Lars Emil Johansen . |
| 26 | A notable absentee from the Wallasey side in recent weeks has been skipper Mark Anderson who is suffering from a back injury . |
| 27 | Most surprising addition has been Lockheed YF–117A stealth fighter 79–10781 , one of the only two YK–117s built , the other was written off in May 1978 . |