Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a ‘ victim survey ’ , such as the British Crime Survey of 1983 , a sample of the population is asked to give details of any crime of which they have been a victim in the previous year . |
| 2 | In his will he left sizeable sums for schools he had built in his home parishes , as well as for Christ 's Hospital , of which he had been a donation governor in 1833 . |
| 3 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
| 4 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
| 5 | Lord Bridge then gave his reasons for acknowledging that the Court of Appeal , of which he had been a member , in De Falco v. Crawley Borough Council was wrong to hold that a challenge to a housing authority 's decision on intentional homelessness could be made by action as well as by judicial review , and continued , at p. 294 : |
| 6 | I wanted to include his doctors and nurses at both hospitals in which he had been a patient , and our friends in the residential home . |
| 7 | He bequeathed his valuable genealogical collections to the Society of Antiquaries , of which he had been a fellow since 1901 . |
| 8 | In 1965 he resigned from Sinn Féin , of which he had been a vice-president , because of its refusal to recognise the legitimacy of both governments in Ireland . |
| 9 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 10 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not able to join us in Committee because I have enjoyed his contributions in previous Committees of which he has been a member . |
| 11 | Yet the harsh fact remains that Rushdie has won much greater commitment from politicians elsewhere than from those in the country of which he has been a citizen for a quarter of a century . |
| 12 | The Nikola Petkov Bulgarian Agrarian Party ( BZNS ) campaigned separately from the UDF , of which it had been a partner in the 1990 elections . |
| 13 | The opening ceremony represented Courtaulds ' opportunity to rededicate itself to a business in which it has been a world leader throughout most of this century … |
| 14 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 15 | When he asked about his father , his mother told him he had been a drunkard and a scoundrel . |
| 16 | For her it had been a night of mystery and of magic , and he had reduced it to ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 17 | The last time a man had touched her it had been a pleasure , a miracle of sensation . |
| 18 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 19 | Later on , my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague . |
| 20 | Whatever the exact circumstances , it is at least clear that Eliot vacated Carlyle Mansions quickly and deliberately — and that he left behind him a man to whom he had been a companion for ten years . |
| 21 | Images have always crowded Bevan Davies ' mind and in an effort to capture them he has been a photographer for many years . |
| 22 | Okay what I have is a starter pack |
| 23 | Here what we had was a case of the supreme court , well I 'll say more about this later , but the supreme court declaring segregation by race to be unconstitutional and requiring that these decisions be recognized and enforced by relevant authorities . |
| 24 | What we have are a number of ideas of what social class is as a phenomenon , sometimes overlapping , sometimes divergent . |
| 25 | Instead , what we have is a mess . |
| 26 | We we do that in terms of of of capital control for Translink and Computer Services , and it 's interesting to note that we do n't class as a debt free authority , so what we have is a number of scare stories from Vincent over there , which is irresponsible . |
| 27 | What we have is a database with a much freer format underneath and a spreadsheet on top . |
| 28 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 29 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |