Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since his arrival at the agency in 1986 , Baulk has been a key figure in putting in place , through acquisition , below-the-line services . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The typical England strike under Taylor has been a lofted cross from the flank or dead ball situation into a crowded penalty area , a scramble , then either Gary Lineker or Platt emerging from the melee in celebration . |
| 4 | A chapter on homebuilt organisations around the world is instructive , not least to learn that whilst amateur-built aircraft have had official blessing ( or at least the blind eye treatment ) in many Eastern Bloc countries for a decade or more , getting approval to fly a homebuilt in Italy and Germany has been a hard-won struggle against obstinate bureaucracy . |
| 5 | Mr Houphouet-Boigny has been a political giant , a supreme operator . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Environmentalists recall that , since 1975 , Ruckelshaus has been a senior vice-president of the Weyerhaeuser Company of Tacoma , Washington — a timber corporation that has had disagreements with the EPA . |
| 8 | It will not surprise you to learn that Eugene Wigner has been a leading proponent of this view . |
| 9 | where There , the growth of Milton Keynes has been a major factor , but smaller towns have also felt the pressures of development . |
| 10 | The weak tradition of trade unionism in Texas has been a major cause for the profession of the prison officer to develop in a very different way from in Europe . |
| 11 | The point that the king was out hunting is not insignificant : hunting was an appropriate pastime for kings , and Guntram is known from Gregory to have been a keen huntsman . |
| 12 | Roz Hatch had been a real looker in her time , and the family portrait said one thing to Cowley above all else : we stick together . |
| 13 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 14 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 15 | Friday had been a busy day . |
| 16 | Kylie had been a 13-year-old slip of a thing when she had last stayed with Dennis and Joan in their home in the village of Cymmer . |
| 17 | The snowdrops at Painswick have been a popular attraction for over a century . |
| 18 | And Toby 's been a little angel this afternoon . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The EAEI has been a genuine partnership . |
| 21 | INGLEBOROUGH HAS BEEN a favourite mountain of mine ever since I first climbed it as a young man . |
| 22 | After his election to a five-year term , he said : ‘ Albania has been a one-man country for 70 years , and for some years should be a parliamentary country . |
| 23 | ( Giulio Andreotti has been a senior minister since the 1960s ) . |
| 24 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 25 | McCoist scoring at Ibrox has been a predictable occurrence in a season in which he has now amassed 43 goals in all competitions . |
| 26 | David Hill , head of Sky Sports believes former Scottish star Gray has been a major signing . |
| 27 | I 'm happy for them both , Reg has been a lonely man and my mother has also been lonely since dad 's death . |
| 28 | On his return from the east , he found Arabs in the local Pyrenees also , Saracen raids from Spain having been a regular affliction here since the eighth century . |
| 29 | Constanza would have liked Simon to have been a conscientious objector . |
| 30 | The assassins had never been traced , and the British authorities had said they were Sinn Feiners ; it was a stupid accusation , for MacCurtain had been a staunch Republican himself , so nobody had any doubt that the killers were Black and Tans . |