Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] has been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Andy Gregory has been a brilliant scrum-half , but he 's coming to the end of his career and can only be a short-term buy for Doug Laughton at Leeds . |
| 2 | It will not surprise you to learn that Eugene Wigner has been a leading proponent of this view . |
| 3 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 4 | ‘ David McCallen has been the big difference to Bangor . |
| 5 | Ken Clarke has been an obvious candidate for some years . |
| 6 | Playing contact with South Africa has been a continuing problem for New Zealand rugby for over 30 years — and the problem will not go away . |
| 7 | To impute that Dr Runcie has been an unsuccessful archbishop by quoting falling numbers in that part of the Anglican Communion which is the Church of England is to ignore a whole complex of reasons for a reduction in church-going , including , no doubt , the encouragement of a highly competitive and success-orientated society . |
| 8 | ( Graeme Clark has been a Baptist minister for the last ten years and was appointed Executive Director of Glasgow City Mission in May 1992 . |
| 9 | Electricity generator PowerGen Plc said Sir Graham Day is to retire as its chairman and that Sir Colin Southgate , chairman and chief executive of Thorn EMI Plc , will succeed him ; Sir Colin has been a non-executive director of PowerGen since the firm was created in 1990 . |
| 10 | Mr Houphouet-Boigny has been a political giant , a supreme operator . |
| 11 | ( Giulio Andreotti has been a senior minister since the 1960s ) . |
| 12 | Though Mr Pinter has been a loyal and vociferous supporter of Mr Kinnock he sometimes needs to be cajoled . |
| 13 | A former controller and managing director designate of the BBC , Mr Grade has been a vociferous critic of the Corporation 's programme policy . |
| 14 | His interests have not been confined to chest disease and smoking , however : Professor Fletcher has been a tireless campaigner for better communications between patients and doctors . |
| 15 | Coun Michna has been a leading opponent of the scheme , which he says is inappropriate for Clairville Common . |
| 16 | As Figure 2 shows , the United Kingdom has been a large net contributor to the EEC budget . |
| 17 | Mrs Johnson has been a major supplier to both Sotheby 's and Christie 's this spring season , offering silver , furniture and works of art at sales both in New York and London ( some lots undesignated as to their owner ) . |
| 18 | Ralph Lauren has been a big influence too , with his Navajo and Santa Fe prints . ’ |
| 19 | I want to clarify that for us Hong Kong has been an excellent location for selling Chinese art and our sale in Taiwan in no way represents a change of heart . |
| 20 | Bob Stevenson has been a worthy successor to Methodist leaders who stamped their personalities on the county . |
| 21 | David Hill , head of Sky Sports believes former Scottish star Gray has been a major signing . |
| 22 | Deng Xiaoping has been the dominant figure within the upper echelons of the ruling Chinese Communist Party since 1980 . |
| 23 | When newspapers first speculated that Lady Dartmouth was to replace the Earl of Dartmouth with the divorced Earl Spencer , a then-unknown Lady Sarah Spencer gave the memorable quote : ‘ Since my grandfather died last June and we moved from Sandringham to Althorp Park , Lady Dartmouth has been an all-too-frequent visitor . ’ |
| 24 | where There , the growth of Milton Keynes has been a major factor , but smaller towns have also felt the pressures of development . |
| 25 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 26 | Since the 1960's , Adrian Piper has been an influential video maker in the United States . |
| 27 | Melrose comes from a strong rugby family with his elder brother Gregg a member of past Parramatta premiership winning teams while younger brother Brian has been a regular first-grade player with both Parramatta and Western Suburbs . |
| 28 | The pirate recording of the Berlin Lucia has been a huge success on LP and even now on CD . |
| 29 | WELSH wizard Jonathan Davies has been a prolific scorer since quitting rugby union to turn professional with Widnes in January 1989 . |
| 30 | The performance of the avuncular Shadow Chancellor John Smith has been the undoubted success of Labour 's campaign . |