Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But the real discovery for me has been the final item on Disc 1 , the Messe des Pauvres , composed , incredibly , in 1895 .
2 The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics .
3 ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ?
4 I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall .
5 I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country .
6 I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size .
7 er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending .
8 In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three .
9 ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust .
10 I have been the weaker vessel .
11 He had wanted children for years : not having them had been the one drawback to marrying late .
12 She has been the Great North Run winner in 1990 and 1991 as well as the British track holder at all distances from 100m to 800 .
13 It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe .
14 He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area .
15 You 've been the one person in my life who has really influenced my art . ’
16 You 've been the very opery since we left Kilkeel . ’
17 But wherever they had gone , she had been the perfect companion : enthusiastic , amusing and loving .
18 She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time .
19 She had been the only passenger to alight from the two carriage train which she could still hear dimly in the distance , chuffing its way over the Severn Bridge on its way to Lydney .
20 For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them .
21 Aleksandra Biryukova retired as a Deputy Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers ( in which she had been the only woman out of 69 members ) and as Chair of the Bureau for Social Development on Sept. 17 .
22 She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants .
23 He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now .
24 Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim .
25 She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school
26 I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’
27 If we had been the attacking team we would have been wanting that try . ’
28 Especially as we have been the better side 3 out of 4 matches .
29 Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision .
30 But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it .
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