Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 2 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 3 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 4 | The cop who 'd collected her had been a crowd control unit , the full cyborg . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that Mr Steel probably on his own admission has said he 's been a bit late out of the starting blocks in order to make his bid for a review of the allocations , er I mean how do you feel in response to that ? |
| 6 | It was rumoured she had been a barmaid , heady stuff in those days . |
| 7 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |