Example sentences of "[subord] he have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |
| 2 | Although he had been a sobering and restricting influence in a Germanic way upon the Queen , she took to wearing black immediately after his death and , in a sense , appeared never to cease mourning for him until the day she died . |
| 3 | ‘ But although he 's been a key force for them , we have to remember that they have a number of good jumpers ready to come in as replacements . |
| 4 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 5 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |
| 6 | Once he had been The First Hand Supreme in all Chung Kuo , Master of Masters and eight times winner of the great annual championship held in Suchow . |
| 7 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 8 | Even if he had been a screaming queen , he thought , it was n't something he was bound to mention on the application form for a boy 's public school . |
| 9 | If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day . |
| 10 | If he had been a young , attractive gentleman , I would have been too shy to offer help , but as he was not handsome , and even quite rough , I felt I wanted to help him . |
| 11 | This area — even if he had been a total stranger to the city , and know nothing of its history , would have immediately advertised itself as the red-light district — even the very air seemed tainted by the smells of cheap perfume and sex . |
| 12 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 13 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 14 | She heard her own shaming urgency and winced self-consciously , but even if he had been an observant man , Florian was currently too preoccupied to have noticed it , still busily congratulating himself and probably fantasising about taking Hawaii by storm . |
| 15 | If he 'd been a Sikh it might have been different . |
| 16 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , cos he 's been a great help to me ! |
| 18 | Jack Little was Palace 's first choice right-back for some seven seasons , on the resumption of fully competitive football after the end of the 1st World War , but he was well-known to followers of the sport in the wider Croydon area for considerably longer , because he had been a regular member of the Croydon Common side , which won promotion from the 2nd Division of the Southern League in 1913–14 with a remarkable defensive record of only conceding 14 goals in 30 matches . |
| 19 | ‘ I lost my father before I signed for Rangers and his death had a devastating effect on me since we had always been so close , and not simply because he had been a professional goalkeeper in his time , ’ Goram said . |
| 20 | Really sad case , that , because he 'd been a fine man . |
| 21 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 22 | This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient . |
| 23 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 24 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
| 25 | I think the key point is Yeltsin , like Gorbachev , unlike the coup leaders is part of a very privileged elite in the Soviet Union and the difference is that to express the erm , you know trying to put them , advance themselves in society at the expense of the rest of Soviet 's society , applicable difference is erm much more inventive and sort of packed on the end to justify er that , that the moves they are making , I mean at , you know like I say that can be seen in the very democratic step that Yeltsin 's been taking since he 's been the Russian president . |
| 26 | She had loved him while hating him , had loved him when he 'd been a perfect swine . |
| 27 | When he has been a Christian for three years , we find him , in the pages of his brother 's diary , reading The Epistle to the Romans , the greatest exposition in Scripture of the themes of Original Sin , Grace and Justification by Faith . |
| 28 | This was not entirely unexpected , as he had been a firm supporter of the project , and the union had put £7,000 into the earlier feasibility study , but it was still a useful bonus , and provided the sort of result NoS needed to wave around . |
| 29 | Ian was the best at making himself understood as he had been a Latin scholar . |
| 30 | My master was still asleep , as he had been the previous evening when I returned from my love tryst . |