Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 2 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 3 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 4 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 5 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 6 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 7 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 8 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 10 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 11 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 12 | In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months . |
| 13 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 14 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |
| 15 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 16 | I wondered whether Lili would agree that they had been best friends . |
| 17 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 18 | ‘ I think that 's why he has n't remarried , although it 's been ten years now … |
| 19 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 20 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 21 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 22 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 23 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 25 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 26 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 27 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 28 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 29 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 30 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |