Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Ari , she had no difficulty accepting the idea Tammuz had once been Ewan , but there was no way she could really feel this odd , crazed man was the one she 'd loved before . |
| 2 | Arsenal have always been Thomas 's first choice , but talks between the clubs broke down acrimoniously two weeks ago when a £2.5 million offer was rejected . |
| 3 | Robert de Niro has always been case as the Invisible Man of Hollywood . |
| 4 | ( González had previously been Health Minister , appointed on Sept. 23 to replace Julio César Corzo who was killed in an air crash . ) |
| 5 | Trainer Paul Cole had also been second in Ireland 's big race on Saturday when well-backed Bright Generation was outgunned by Clive Brittain 's flying filly Sayyedati at The Curragh . |
| 6 | Philip Greaves , had the portfolios of Public Works and Communications added to his existing responsibilities ; he was also Leader of the House of Assembly Warwick Franklin had hitherto been Agriculture Minister , where his tenure had been a controversial one . |
| 7 | Another reader brought in the 1960 European Cup semi-final programme between Dundee and Milan to underline one of the connections Dundee manager Bob Shankly had previously been gaffer at Stirling . |
| 8 | Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing . |
| 9 | ‘ And Rhoda Brocklebank and Roxie Farmer and Shirley Place have all been spending money , ’ said Coffin . |
| 10 | Abu Jaber said that " the Palestinian people must be allowed to exercise their right of self-determination in their ancestral homeland " and added : " Let me speak plainly that Jordan has never been Palestine and will not be so . " |
| 11 | Although he had been born in Wine Street , Bristol , his cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington , and his grandfather had farmed in the remote Somerset hamlet of Rich 's Holford below the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills ; his eccentric uncle , John , was comfortably established in a ‘ most delightful villa ’ a mile from Taunton , and Bath had intermittently been Southey 's own home since childhood . |
| 12 | In addition the head office buildings in Liverpool had not been purpose built to suit the needs of the company and they had become too small . |
| 13 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 14 | Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] . |
| 15 | A parliamentary commission had on Jan. 9 begun investigations into land purchases made in 1990 by Equidesa , a subsidiary of Renfe , the state-owned railway company of which Valverde had then been president . |
| 16 | The Wrights had always been classics masters at the great public schools , or clergymen . |
| 17 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 18 | Pérez had previously been President in 1974-79 and was the first Venezuelan head of state to be re-elected . |
| 19 | But Fernando did n't know that , though she had tried to tell him that she and Steve had never been lovers . |
| 20 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 21 | Germany , Spain , Greece , Portugal and Italy have all been dictatorships in the last fifty years , some of them recently . |
| 22 | France , Spain and Italy have all been stalwarts of the EC . |
| 23 | He is Chairman of Inchcape having previously been Chairman and Chief Executive of Vickers . |
| 24 | French-trained Col. Guei had also been chief of the national fire brigade . |
| 25 | In the first half Beeney did nt have anythingto do really , apart from one excellent save after Soton had suprisingly been onside . |
| 26 | The only other significant oil producer in Latin America has traditionally been Argentina but this has recently been changed by the exploration successes in Brazil . |
| 27 | Even with modest opposition , the St Leger had never been trainer Vincent O'Brien 's idea of a suitable warm-up for the Arc . |
| 28 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
| 29 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 30 | The inside of every room in the palace was said to be roofed and walled with rich fabric , and he guessed that the Yek had once been nomads . |