Example sentences of "who have been a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Chris Patten , party chairman , and is a chartered accountant who has been a radio presenter . |
| 2 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 3 | What he did n't say , until he published his autobiography last year , was that he was also a high school drop-out who 'd been a heroin addict , a splendid example of rising out of the rot of the inner city . |
| 4 | And Forne , merchant of York , who had been a master coiner at Nottingham now for years , and had thought his fortune made , no doubt , when he married the sister of Duncan — King Duncan , the last one to rule Alba and Cumbria . |
| 5 | An interim Prime Minster , Jean Jacques Honorat , who had been a government minister under former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and was one of Aristide 's bitterest critics , was installed on Oct. 10 ; a new Cabinet was announced on Oct. 16 . |
| 6 | Philip Snowden , who had been a harder-line pacifist during the war than the more pragmatic Macdonald , was now Labour 's Chancellor , and he stood like a rock against all attempts to introduce new economic thinking . |
| 7 | Gramoz Pashko , Deputy Prime Minister in June-December 1991 , who had been a founder member of the DP , accused his old party of diluting and altering the reform programme especially as regards privatization , and described the new party as a liberal formation of the centre-right committed to institutional , economic and cultural reforms . |
| 8 | He was the son of a woman who had been a nightclub singer and briefly married to Juan Gómez , that was all my tired mind seemed able to grasp . |
| 9 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 10 | The most important was Richard Mynours , who had been a gentleman usher of the prince 's chamber in the mid 1470s and entered Richard 's household in the same capacity . |
| 11 | The most important was Richard Mynours , who had been a gentleman usher of the prince 's chamber in the mid 1470s and entered Richard 's household in the same capacity . |
| 12 | He was far more at home in jeans and a sweater or the favourite scuffed old flying jacket he had inherited from his father , who had been a Spitfire pilot in the war and he wore them whenever he could . |
| 13 | Her granny , who had been a Brownie Guider a long time ago , had told her about how a Brownie smiles instead of crying when in trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 15 | The men of military age had been commanded by Ataman ( Cossack " Headman " ) Pavlov until his death in June 1944 , and then by Gen Domanov , who had been a serving officer in the Red Army . |
| 16 | A legacy from Flying Officer D J L Andrews , who had been a Flight Engineer on Stirling and Lancaster aircraft and who remembered Sussexdown in his will , provided a major source of funds for the project . |
| 17 | She dredged up her past , recalling the girl who had been Jazzbeaux , who had been a War Chief . |
| 18 | The three brothers raised a sum upon Post Obit Bonds through one Louis Weltzie , Clerk of the Prince of Wales 's Kitchen , and a man who had been a Lottery Office Keeper near Carlton House , called Annesley Shee . |
| 19 | State and federal appeals were filed on April 17 based on the claim that Harris 's brother ( who had been a prosecution witness ) had fired the shots which had killed the boys . |