Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] have been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | It will not surprise you to learn that Eugene Wigner has been a leading proponent of this view . |
| 3 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 4 | Molly Fletcher had been a pretty girl , but she had the faded air of a flower that has been transplanted into the wrong soil . |
| 5 | Jean Henderson had been a quick pupil at school ; so was one of the 1910 survivors whom I interviewed , Ethel Brechin . |
| 6 | They had also confirmed that the affair with David Parkin had been a public secret on the programme for several months , and that Nicola had whispered to several people that she had been promised Jane Pargeter 's job by Blufton . |
| 7 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon had been a major force in English religious life for almost forty years when he died in 1892 . |
| 8 | A tragedy in a way , for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Playing contact with South Africa has been a continuing problem for New Zealand rugby for over 30 years — and the problem will not go away . |
| 11 | ( Graeme Clark has been a Baptist minister for the last ten years and was appointed Executive Director of Glasgow City Mission in May 1992 . |
| 12 | Coffin wondered if the inhabitants of Drake Towers , with their BMWs and Porsches , knew that the old Francis Drake Street had been a regular thieves ' kitchen . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 15 | Mr Houphouet-Boigny has been a political giant , a supreme operator . |
| 16 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 17 | Tom Reynolds had been a loyal and useful ally but now his usefulness was almost at an end . |
| 18 | ( Giulio Andreotti has been a senior minister since the 1960s ) . |
| 19 | Besides , Madame Claudia had been a foolish idea . |
| 20 | Uncle Bill had been a wise man to leave the money to Angela , who had enjoyed it , rather than to this grudging , bitter , scruffy young woman . |
| 21 | Though Mr Pinter has been a loyal and vociferous supporter of Mr Kinnock he sometimes needs to be cajoled . |
| 22 | A former controller and managing director designate of the BBC , Mr Grade has been a vociferous critic of the Corporation 's programme policy . |
| 23 | There had at one time , Agnes had told her , been a full complement of horses and hounds , for Sir John had been a keen sportsman . |
| 24 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 25 | Well placed at the time of Alexander II 's accession , Dmitrii Miliutin had been a penetrating analyst of the empire 's military weaknesses at the beginning of 1856 . |
| 26 | Mrs Petrov had been a senior Russian agent in Sweden and after her defection Swedish intelligence visited Australia and obtained much useful information from her about the networks she had established in their country .. |
| 27 | His interests have not been confined to chest disease and smoking , however : Professor Fletcher has been a tireless campaigner for better communications between patients and doctors . |
| 28 | Coun Michna has been a leading opponent of the scheme , which he says is inappropriate for Clairville Common . |
| 29 | As Figure 2 shows , the United Kingdom has been a large net contributor to the EEC budget . |
| 30 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |