Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 2 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 3 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 4 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 5 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 6 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 7 | Witness Poland , which has been the first to recover from three years of relentless slump . |
| 8 | By contrast Sofia , the capital , was the stronghold of the UDF , which comprised some 16 different parties or movements ranging from the environmental group Eco-Glasnost ( which had been the first to oppose the former communist regime — see p. 36980 ) to Podkrepa , the rapidly growing free trade union movement . |
| 9 | Saturated world markets , together with the international embargo against Iraq ( which had been the fifth largest importer of Canadian wheat in 1989 ) , meant , however , that the country 's transport and storage facilities were placed under considerable strain . |
| 10 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 11 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 12 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 13 | She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time . |
| 14 | She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive . |
| 15 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 16 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 17 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 18 | The dissident who had been the first to speak to Holly talked the hesitant monologue of revolution . |
| 19 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 20 | It was the era of Len Battersby , Inspector , who had been the last Chief Preventive Officer on the revenue crew of the old Vigilant . |
| 21 | Since the 1950s there has been a fifth column of British writers who demonstrate and often acknowledge their admiration for French writing , Alain Robbe-Grillet and the nouveau roman in particular . |
| 22 | After giving details of the first four murders , Mr John said : ‘ There has been a fifth development , a murder in south London , which bears features similar to the others we are investigating . ’ |
| 23 | It is only the fifth time in the post-war history of the tournament that this has happened , and only the third time there has been a First Division v Second Division clash in each semi-final . |
| 24 | Since competitive cat shows began , there has been a third selection pressure operating on feline coat colours — that of purification . |
| 25 | There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed . |
| 26 | There had been no third man all day as Crowe attacked , and those edges which eluded the close field went for fours . |
| 27 | Well , perhaps there had been a second bank-book , after all ? |
| 28 | Perhaps there had been a second confrontation after all and another loss of control . |
| 29 | There had been a fourth new name on the Omagh team sheet in the match day programme , that of Ray Duffy . |
| 30 | No more than that , for we were all on renewable annual contracts and Clive never tired of reminding us just how many eager applicants there had been the last time he 'd had to ‘ let someone go ’ . |