Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awarded the MBE is Meurig Davies , 54 , of Deganwy , who has been coxswain of Llandudno Lifeboat since 1970 , and retires next April after 30 years service . |
| 2 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 3 | The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest . |
| 4 | She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year . |
| 5 | This was true of Lyfing of Crediton , who had been abbot of Tavistock ; of Æthelric and Eadnoth II of Dorchester , both Ramsey monks ; of Edmund of Durham ; of Brihtwig of Wells , abbot of Glastonbury ; and of Brihtheah of Worcester , abbot of Pershore . |
| 6 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 7 | Beyond France , General Charles de Gaulle , who had been Under-Secretary of Defence in 1940 , formed the ‘ Free French ’ movement , based first in London and then ( after 1943 ) Algiers , and claimed to be the ‘ true ’ representative of the French nation . |
| 8 | Casaroli , 76 , who had been Secretary of State since 1979 [ see p. 29852 ] , was widely regarded as the architect of the Vatican 's " Ostpolitik " , stressing closer ties with eastern Europe and the creation of diplomatic links with the Soviet Union [ see pp. 36830 ; 37129 ; 37258 ; 37394 ; 37899 ] . |
| 9 | The second Duke 's eldest son , Sir Walter Stewart , who had been Keeper of Dumbarton castle , was imprisoned on the bleak Bass Rock , and others were summarily tried and executed for treason and conspiracy . |
| 10 | Mba , hitherto governor of the regional bank , the Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale ( BEAC ) , replaced Léon Mebiame who had been head of government since 1981 . |
| 11 | Danov also confirmed allegations that 17 key files on the Markov case had disappeared , and he suggested that these had been destroyed by Gen. Vladimir Todorov , who had been chief of intelligence at the Interior Ministry in 1978 and who in May had fled to Moscow in defiance of an order not to leave Bulgaria . |
| 12 | On Oct. 6 , 1989 , the Prime Minister , Brian Mulroney , announced to the House of Commons that Ramon Hnatyshyn would succeed Jeanne Sauvé , who had been Governor-General since May 1984 [ see p. 33023 ] , to become Canada 's 24th Governor-General with effect from January 1990 . |
| 13 | He was succeeded on June 22 by Javier Solana Madariaga , 50 , who had been Minister of Education and Science since 1988 and was regarded as a close associate of Prime Minister Felipe González . |
| 14 | Three whites were appointed : Dennis Norman , who had been Minister of Agriculture in 1980-85 ; Chris Anderson , the outgoing Minister of State for Public Service ; and Timothy Stamps , one of five ministers new to the government . |
| 15 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 16 | Rose knew Ted in this mood : he remembered that he was the son of a man who had been dresser to George Robey , and grandson of a woman who had known Crippen . |
| 17 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 18 | He had the medical advice of Sir Daniel Davies , who had been physician to Lloyd George and indeed to a number of misguided dignitaries who were influenced by his great reputation . |
| 19 | Carter 's Republican opponent this time was Ronald Reagan , a not very distinguished former Hollywood film star who had been Governor of California . |
| 20 | Tranchant , who had been co-owner with Tapie of an electronics firm , Nippon Audio Video System , alleged that Tapie had fraudulantly kept him ignorant of a payment of F13,000,000 which had been made to him by the Japanese company Toshiba when Toshiba bought the company in 1985 . |
| 21 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 22 | A third was a member of Edward IV 's household , Christopher Worsley , a marshall of the hall , who had been sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1470 and whose links with Gloucester are unknown . |
| 23 | A third was a member of Edward IV 's household , Christopher Worsley , a marshall of the hall , who had been sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1470 and whose links with Gloucester are unknown . |
| 24 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |
| 25 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |
| 26 | The story was also fuelled by a book , My Turn to Speak , written by Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr , who had been President of Iran in 1980-81 . |
| 27 | Frank McManus who had been MP at Westminster for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until February , 1974 had been selected earlier as a Unity candidate for the Convention elections but after a party meeting just before the close of nominations withdrew his name . |
| 28 | The organisation 's other technologies — the Distributed Computing and Management Environments and Motif — are now parts of a unit under a newly created vice-president , interoperability Jeanette Horan who had been director of Motif and OSF/1 engineering . |
| 29 | The organisation 's other technologies — the Distributed Computing and Management Environments and Motif — are now parts of a unit under a newly created vice president , interoperability Jeanette Horan who had been director of Motif and OSF/1 engineering . |
| 30 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |