Example sentences of "[conj] he have [been] a " 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 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 3 | The Goldsmiths summoned him to London , but did not refer to his local supporters , appointing him on 7th August because of his excellent testimonials from the Master and Fellows of Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he had been a student . |
| 4 | In 1889 , the year before the Leeds Congress , he was offered the living of St Katherine 's Church where he had been a very popular curate . |
| 5 | He was newly come today from Eltham , the king 's favourite manor , where he had been a witness at his Majesty 's proxy marriage to the widowed Duchess Joan of Brittany . |
| 6 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 7 | Before joining had worked for for 33 years , where he had been a champion buttermaker . |
| 8 | This last marriage , although he had been a ‘ good man ’ , was uneasy , and she now had ‘ no connection with the stepsons and daughter . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 11 | ‘ No , indeed , ’ he answered gravely , although he had been a little shocked if truth were told . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | It was Mr Deans 's first trip to an offshore installation , although he has been a seaman for a number of years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 16 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |
| 17 | He spoke very warmly of his parents , but I felt that he 'd been a lonely child . |
| 18 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
| 19 | Pearce 's switch to British Aerospace was helped by the fact that he had been a non-executive director of the aerospace company for three years prior to the move . |
| 20 | ‘ I just do n't want an apartheid government in Namibia , ’ said Naftali Herunga , who confided that he had been a soldier , serving in 102 Battalion — an ethnic Herero unit — under the South Africans . |
| 21 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 22 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 23 | Andrew Beattie 's ‘ allegations ’ were , first , that he had been a member of a gang which had murdered the teenage boy ind girl at Abbey Meat Packers , Ltd. in the previous February and , second , that he had hijacked vehicles for road blocks during the UWC general strike . |
| 24 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 25 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 26 | Only when they moved out and the lease was surrendered did Vaughan discover that he had been a victim of Minton 's generosity and had been paying only half his fair share . |
| 27 | Those who did live there all knew Father McGiff and they were able to inform the ignorant that he had been a close friend of the Rabbi ever since the Jews had arrived in the city . |
| 28 | It was true that Conchis was a recluse and never came to the village , but that he had been a collaborationist was a lie . |
| 29 | Years later I discovered that he had been a talented musician , yet he never revealed this , not even to music-loving boys in his house . |
| 30 | In a graveside address he said that he had been a political opponent of Allende , but that he was present to give his " testimony to the truth " . |