Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CPRW has been a member of the EEB for many years and works through it to influence European and global environmental policies . |
| 2 | Mr Ferguson has been a fan of Schmeichel for four years , but it was not until last summer that he could persuade Denmark 's top club , Brondby , to accept an offer . |
| 3 | The school magazine put it in writing : ‘ R. Jenkins has been a tower of strength in Rugby and under normal circumstances would probably have gained an International cap . |
| 4 | ( First Edition ) FOR YEARS , Bulent Ersoy has been a source of confusion to music-loving Turkish Muslims . |
| 5 | Anne Hayward has been a member for 15 years and re-reads the Lord of the Rings annually in three or four days . |
| 6 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 7 | The key to the problems facing Sheffield has been a lack of sponsorship by commercial companies . |
| 8 | Shrewd in the transfer market and refreshingly frank in his public pronouncements , Lennie has been the signing of the season . |
| 9 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 10 | New Brighton has been the setting for seven British championship events , but next week 's spectacle will be the first with European involvement . |
| 11 | New Brighton has been the setting for seven British championship events but next week 's spectacle will be the first to feature European boats . |
| 12 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 13 | Germany has been the jewel of Ingres ' crown , with 700 new licences expected to push revenues there up to DM35m from DM27.6m last time around . |
| 14 | The Black Forest in Germany has been the victim of forest decline , where symptoms such as yellowing leaves and needles and a thinning crown affect half the country 's trees . |
| 15 | For ten years , Milan Kundera has been a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris . |
| 16 | Although Pakistan has been the conduit for the arms supplied to the guerrillas by America and Britain , the guerrillas in the field have been their own men . |
| 17 | Northamptonshire has been the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and his Montagu ancestors since 1528 . |
| 18 | THE severely degraded landscape of the volcanic highlands of central Mexico has been the focus of considerable debate . |
| 19 | ‘ I think if Kylie Minogue has been a flash in the pan she would have lasted for a couple of singles . |
| 20 | Because Lucy has been a tower of strength , ’ he informed her candidly . |
| 21 | Bela Kadar , the minister of international economic relations , claims that Hungary has been the recipient of half of all recent foreign investment in Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | Alf Plumb has been a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1973 and a Member of the British Institute of Management for 13 years . |
| 23 | A CPN has been a member of the Bristol Eating Disorder Team for the past six years . |
| 24 | The first Napoleon had been a patron of men of science , perhaps hoping that finance and political economy might be thus ‘ removed from the sphere of party ’ ; and men like Berthollet , Laplace , Cuvier , Gay-Lussac , Arago , Dumas and Berthelot played prominent parts in , or received titles from , governments of different colours during the century . |
| 25 | Although Northamptonshire had been a stronghold of Puritan sentiment during the Civil War , following the Restoration most of the county adhered to the episcopal church . |
| 26 | While at Bradford in 1911 , Mr. Spencer had been a pioneer with trolleybus development and with his permission , the Associated Equipment Company ( another UndergrounD Group subsidiary ) , demonstrated a single deck trolleybus of quite modern appearance for the time , somewhere on the South Metropolitan system during 1922 , presumably with one trolley on the wire and towing a ball and chain . |
| 27 | This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place . |
| 28 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 29 | Phil : Well I would say that if I had my life over again I wish and hope that everything happens the same , and I think at the end of the day Becky had been the cream on top of the cake … |
| 30 | Until then , the Falklands had been the concern of the Overseas and Defence Committee and had not featured strongly in discussions in full Cabinet . |