Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 2 | They made their way to the sloping bank of allotments , where Pat Weaver had been tenant of lot 18 . |
| 3 | David Pearce has been Secretary of the Society for the protection of Ancient Buildings and Timothy Cantell Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 4 | Miss Mack had been housekeeper at The Hall for as many decades as most people could remember . |
| 5 | Alan Knott has been second only to Les Ames as an England wicket-keeper/batsman . |
| 6 | Sir Alan Sykes had been Chairman since 1921 , and a Governor since 1901 when his father had died . |
| 7 | William Jackson had been production manager with one of the largest carpet manufacturing firms in the area , with a worldwide reputation for quality carpets . |
| 8 | Before that Ernest Armstrong had been chairman of Sunderland Borough Council 's education committee , responsible for introducing comprehensive schools to the town . |
| 9 | Mr Scott has been chairman of Stockton Council 's planning committee almost constantly since 1974 , says a dire slump in the local economy is enough in itself to sound a death knell for the Tories . |
| 10 | Mr Devaux has been head of chambers at the firm which is soon to drop its name based on the names of partners in favour of the title East Anglian Chambers . |
| 11 | Mr Lyons has been part of the team which restructured Labour 's industrial policy , the fruits of which were seen in John Smith 's alternative Budget . |
| 12 | Mr Stott has been editor of the Daily Mirror since 1985 . |
| 13 | Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 . |
| 14 | Mr Storm has been Town Clerk of Nairn for forty-two years . |
| 15 | This was an ambitious objective , but it was 1971 and Robert McNamara had been President of the World Bank for three years , long enough to begin to realize his goal of a leap forward in Bank lending that would take it from $1.1 billion in 1967 to $11.4 billion in 1980 , his last year in office . |
| 16 | During his years as a farmer in Frensham , Mr. Abbott had been vice-chairman of the parish council and was closely involved in the sports clubs . |
| 17 | Salvo Lima had been Mayor of Palermo in the building boom of the Fifties and Sixties , when the Mafia set the rules of many public contracts . |
| 18 | From clogged skies to choked motorways , from Clapham Junction to the Marchioness , Mr Prescott has been Labour 's voice of protest on an issue that has moved to the heart of the ‘ quality of life ’ agenda increasingly dominating the political agenda . |
| 19 | Sir Jeremy has been Warden ( Chairman of the Governing Body ) of his old school , Winchester , since 1987 , and became an Honorary Fellow of New College in 1979 . |
| 20 | Mr Brown has been Head of the Lower School for six years . |
| 21 | The baby King Penguin has been hand reared and follows his adopted mum everywhere . |
| 22 | Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 . |
| 23 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 24 | Yes , and Shelley Cameron had been fool enough to do some of that idolising ! |
| 25 | Lord Rathcreedan , who as Captain Cecil Norton had been Club Captain since 1914 , continued until 1921 , continued until 1921 and Mr. J.C . |
| 26 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 27 | Trudy Watt has been College Lecturer in Biological Statistics at St. John 's College , Oxford . |
| 28 | In fact the commonest cause of death on the hill in the last three years in the Lake District has been heart attacks . |
| 29 | She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener . |
| 30 | But the reaction might have been different if Philip the Fair , rather than St Louis had been king of France at that time . |