Example sentences of "been a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me , I 've been a night person longer than I can remember . ’ |
| 2 | I had then been a night junior . |
| 3 | Only one train crossed the near-distant bridge at this hour and that had been a night train going nowhere , its carriages empty and its windows dark . |
| 4 | One of the rusting iron pipes fastened to the shed wall and apparently coming from what remained of the old boilerhouse inside , had a plate affixed to it , near the stump of what must have been a water stop valve . |
| 5 | Neither was there Wendy , a girl in my form ( it had been a school trip ) who had legs that never quit , long legs , the type rampant fell men dream of . |
| 6 | She 's been a school governor a Labour councillor T L P executive member member of the Social Security and industrial tribunals . |
| 7 | They all laughed , for Breeze 's untidiness had been a school joke for years . |
| 8 | The very existence of the interment camps had been a state secret and virtually all the materials on display would have been ‘ classified ’ before the recent revolution . |
| 9 | Representing Yeltsin , the former State Councillor for legal affairs Sergei Shakhrai [ see pp. 38875 ; 38923 ] emphasised that the CPSU had been a state mechanism , not a political party . |
| 10 | Until now the treatment of sports injuries has been a specialist skill only available to top professionals and some people fortunate to live near a good clinic . |
| 11 | In the late Fifties , early Sixties , following Look Back In Anger , Roots , A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , Lucky Jim , Room At The Top , a young Burton would have been a dream ticket . |
| 12 | Holyfield says that he regrets the fight with Tyson never took place because ‘ that would have been a dream fight . |
| 13 | It 's been a beach carnival of rhetoric by the sea . |
| 14 | There had even been a phone call the previous day from one of the new Moving Picture companies asking if ‘ Mary O'Neil ’ would like to come out to California ? |
| 15 | Mr Ivory 's only contact with Chatchai since then has been a phone call , in which the little boy told him : ‘ We go to Bangkok and never come back . ’ |
| 16 | The drummer , white haired , might have been a conjuror drawing rabbits from his instrument 's interior . |
| 17 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 18 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
| 19 | ‘ If there had n't been a waiting list , Anne would n't be here today . ’ |
| 20 | They 'd always taught her that the only truly good things were those of permanent value ; her first school had been a church school , and twice a week they 'd had to set their chairs in a raggedy half-circle and fidget their way through one of the vicar 's haranguing lectures on Life . |
| 21 | What they have combined with this has been a church growth philosophy that has been remarkably successful . |
| 22 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 23 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought it must have been a road block because one said to the other : ‘ Go for it ’ and they speeded up . |
| 25 | Her father had been a history master at the local grammar school and Dotty had kept house for the old man until his death , when she sold their home , bringing some of the furniture , all the books , four cats , two dogs and a collection of medicinal herbs to her new home . |
| 26 | There has been a Medau class at this school for many years . |
| 27 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 28 | Mr Renton has been a board member since 1985 . |
| 29 | Gregory Butler has long been a field leader in this domain . |
| 30 | Someone had told them there was to be a memorial service for Evangeline Booth that evening in the Regent Hall , which had once been a skating rink . |