Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CPRW has been a member of the EEB for many years and works through it to influence European and global environmental policies . |
| 2 | Mr Ferguson has been a fan of Schmeichel for four years , but it was not until last summer that he could persuade Denmark 's top club , Brondby , to accept an offer . |
| 3 | The school magazine put it in writing : ‘ R. Jenkins has been a tower of strength in Rugby and under normal circumstances would probably have gained an International cap . |
| 4 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 5 | ( First Edition ) FOR YEARS , Bulent Ersoy has been a source of confusion to music-loving Turkish Muslims . |
| 6 | Anne Hayward has been a member for 15 years and re-reads the Lord of the Rings annually in three or four days . |
| 7 | The key to the problems facing Sheffield has been a lack of sponsorship by commercial companies . |
| 8 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | Gary has been a pit deputy at Whitemoor for four years . |
| 10 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 11 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 12 | IN MOST ways , post-war Germany has been a model citizen . |
| 13 | THROUGHOUT history , Germany has been an idea or , more accurately , a longing ( Sehnsucht ) rather than a reality as a unified state . |
| 14 | For ten years , Milan Kundera has been a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris . |
| 15 | The Financial Times , for example ( 1986 ) , has suggested that ‘ there is little doubt that in commercial terms the LDDC has been a success ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I think if Kylie Minogue has been a flash in the pan she would have lasted for a couple of singles . |
| 17 | Because Lucy has been a tower of strength , ’ he informed her candidly . |
| 18 | Alf Plumb has been a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1973 and a Member of the British Institute of Management for 13 years . |
| 19 | Steven Rich , Peter H. Tillou , London ( a relatively recent presence in London ) : Peter Tillou has been a dealer and a collector for over thirty-five years from his home in Connecticut . |
| 20 | A CPN has been a member of the Bristol Eating Disorder Team for the past six years . |
| 21 | Neil has been a Forest Ranger for 15 years and a sculptor for 5 . |
| 22 | In four wars with Israel Syria has been a loser . |
| 23 | The first Napoleon had been a patron of men of science , perhaps hoping that finance and political economy might be thus ‘ removed from the sphere of party ’ ; and men like Berthollet , Laplace , Cuvier , Gay-Lussac , Arago , Dumas and Berthelot played prominent parts in , or received titles from , governments of different colours during the century . |
| 24 | Although Northamptonshire had been a stronghold of Puritan sentiment during the Civil War , following the Restoration most of the county adhered to the episcopal church . |
| 25 | While at Bradford in 1911 , Mr. Spencer had been a pioneer with trolleybus development and with his permission , the Associated Equipment Company ( another UndergrounD Group subsidiary ) , demonstrated a single deck trolleybus of quite modern appearance for the time , somewhere on the South Metropolitan system during 1922 , presumably with one trolley on the wire and towing a ball and chain . |
| 26 | There was no clear indication of which group had assisted in his escape , with reports attributing a motive variously to the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , the left-wing December 20 ( M-20 ) guerrillas , or the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) , of which Gaitán had been a commander , and which was believed to have been behind a number of bombings since the US invasion . |
| 27 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 28 | Even more important was the fact that people had devoted their lives to establishing the identity of such creatures ; that for someone the original distinction between Porcellio and Armadillidium had been a matter of life-consuming importance . |
| 29 | When Meredith had been a child , her father always read A Christmas Carol aloud to his family on Christmas Eve . |
| 30 | Marie had been a hairdresser before her son Mark was born . |