Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest buy has been Norweigan international Fjortoft . |
| 2 | The only addition to the crowded airwaves in the past year to have significantly demonstrated all three has been Radio 4 News FM . |
| 3 | Mr Dignum , 52 , has been group financial director since 1988 and was appointed finance director of the stores in January . |
| 4 | He wanted to live , he 'd put in long years , he 'd been champion three times , it no longer excited him to race , this was it , goodbye and thanks . |
| 5 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 6 | According to the diary , it must have been Friday 17 July . |
| 7 | In 1987 he joined Guinness as director of financial control for Guinness PLC , after having been group financial controller for Midland Bank . |
| 8 | Montgomerie badly wants to finish his season with a win , having been runner-up four times , including the Dunhill Cup team tournament . |
| 9 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 10 | It is believed to have been No. 11 E , then renumbered 355 , with the L.C.C . |
| 11 | We talked for a while , catching up on our movements since we 'd last been neighbours six months earlier , in November . |
| 12 | The original release date had been January this year but it took longer than expected to complete the re-write and ensure there were no bugs . |
| 13 | Rashid Akhtarini became Deputy Prime Minister for Service Affairs in place of Mahmud Qaddur , who had been Deputy Prime minister for Public Affairs . |
| 14 | In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign . |
| 15 | On Aug. 27 Lord Owen ( who as David Owen had been UK Foreign Secretary in the Labour government in 1977-79 and subsequently a founder and then leader of the Social Democratic Party ) was named as Carrington 's successor . |
| 16 | Relations with Transkei , where de Klerk urged a return to civilian rule , had been complicated by Holomisa 's allegations that two men arrested on Dec. 29 , 1989 , had been South African agents on a mission to kill him . |
| 17 | Yet all was glitter in this room , as it had been glitter two months ago when she had been so happy . |
| 18 | The trawler had been fishing five miles off the coast in international waters but within the prohibited area . |
| 19 | Ian had been Group Financial Controller since he joined the company in 1989 . |
| 20 | The Mahmud Pasa concerned , he suggests , is thus not the Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasa , but rather Kassabzade Mahmud Bey , who had been Mehmed II's tutor when he went to Manisa in 1443 and who was a leading figure in the events of 1444 . |
| 21 | Why , there had been Macphersons grinding flour in the Tollemarche district sixty years ago , and it had taken her years of hard infighting to reach her present exalted rank ; now this woman was , after only twelve months of residence , her vice-president . |
| 22 | There 've been visitors each day for the past year and a half to this quiet corner of the Whitworth Road Cemetery in Swindon . |
| 23 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 24 | There have been perks.This new classroom unit is one of them … paid for by extra money from the government … |
| 25 | It was over for weeks ago that we last publishd a programe , as finansises have been moch two tite for such extragavance . |
| 26 | There have been occasions this season when Quakers have taken the lead and then sloppily folded ; but this time the players rolled up their sleeves to jealously protect the three points . |