Example sentences of "been an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the murdered men may have been an assassin . ’ |
| 2 | She has always been an internationalist — and since 1975 has been membership secretary of the Chile Solidarity Campaign . |
| 3 | Her name was Avavnuk ; she had been an Eskimo in her life . |
| 4 | That is , indeed , the line which has been taken in cases concerning the Scottish Union legislation ( e.g. McCormick v Lord Advocate , [ 1953 ] SC 396 ; Gibson v Lord Advocate , ( 1975 ) SLT 134 ) which , however , have failed thus far because none of the acts complained of as allegedly infringing the terms of union ( e.g. the conferment upon Her Majesty by the Royal Titles Act 1953 of the title of ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Second ’ , when there had never been an Elizabeth the First of Scotland ) has in fact infringed those terms . |
| 5 | ‘ Later we were told there had been an incident at the Hilton and were asked to move all our guests away from the windows . ’ |
| 6 | Our task is made easier if people give us as much information as possible when there has been an incident . |
| 7 | Has there been an incident of any kind ? |
| 8 | Furthermore during the whole history of over 50 years there has never been an incident which would have required an Off-Site Emergency Plan to be put into action . |
| 9 | Not in a hundred per cent of the cases , er and we do have undesirables at the John Radcliffe , er but there has n't been an incident such as this er I think that goes some way to prove that we do have a reasonably tight security service , and we , we work to any way that we can to keep it as secure as possible . |
| 10 | It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke . |
| 11 | We had just finished the Card Trio in Act 3 with Leontyne and the two other gipsy girls in splendid voice , while Karajan 's accompaniment had been an education in itself . |
| 12 | So , having D'Arcy in the band has been an education , not only from playing with someone who 's obviously a girl , but seeing how people perceive that and seeing the kind of shit she takes because she 's a girl . |
| 13 | The whole episode had been an education for all , with one revealing truth emerging among many . |
| 14 | Got back safe an safe and sound tt , was able to tell them all school about too , which really must have been an education for those since nobody had left the town , very far , anyway . |
| 15 | He has just two O-Levels ; one of them a B grade in Art — it would have been an A , he says , if he 'd spent a little less time throwing paper at his classmates . |
| 16 | She has been an A grade student all the way through her time at the Darlington girls ' school and is a stalwart of the school 's debating society . |
| 17 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 18 | ‘ CREEP ’ HAS been an NME office favourite for weeks . |
| 19 | The contemporary tumours that Eleanor had been an adulteress made it possible to believe that she preached what she practised . |
| 20 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |
| 21 | Central to the programme has been an awareness of the following criteria : |
| 22 | Tracey Boyd has been an illustrator since 1980 . |
| 23 | Tracey Boyd has been an illustrator since 1980 . |
| 24 | Afterwards , rehabilitated in the German Navy , he had been an admiral in NATO 's northern naval command . |
| 25 | He must of been an admiral of title somewhere else , ha ha . |
| 26 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 27 | When conflict between Ken McFaul , a founder member of the DUP and an ex-mayor of Carrickfergus , and other DUP members reached the point of McFaul being expelled from the Party ( and simultaneously resigning ) , he also left the Free Presbyterian Church of which he had been an elder . |
| 28 | Hiorne 's antiquarian leanings are reflected in his election as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1784 ; and like his father , who had been an alderman of Warwick and served as mayor in 1765–6 , he was also a prominent figure in the public life of his home town . |
| 29 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 30 | To Constance 's English eyes , his skin was so brown he might have been an Indian . |