Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ had himself been taught at the school in the eighteen-nineties — my father had been one of his contemporaries . |
| 2 | Mr. Sutton was a nice old gentleman — looked distinguished with his white hair and small white beard , a stickler for accuracy and forever telling me that my father had been one of his pupils . |
| 3 | You are all I 've got , all I 've got left to build my life on ; my life has been one long frustration , and to stand aside and see you throw yourself away on scum like … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Autumn is my season , twilight is my hour and all my life has been one chain of related twilights ’ , he has written . |
| 5 | Her progress had been one of near-collisions , dodging round cases and people , and just as the gate she 'd wanted had come in sight she had seen Lori and a man passing through . |
| 6 | The average attendance in the 121 years of its existence has been 60–80 pupils . |
| 7 | Mr. West had in fact calculated its weight to have been 1,771 tons . |
| 8 | The unravelling of their chemistry has been one of the great achievements of 20th century science , a large part of it due to sir Norman Haworth , whose studies in this field spanned more than 30 years . |
| 9 | When I have , on occasion , remarked upon this to other company wives , their reaction has been one of near disbelief , followed by looks of passionate envy . |
| 10 | The day that would soon be drawing to its close had been one of the most wonderful he had experienced : the theft , the murder , the link between the theft and the murder — yes , all now known . |
| 11 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 12 | That Merymose had died because he had discovered something important enough to threaten the killer was clear , and Huy knew that his own reluctance to take the policeman into his confidence had been one indirect reason for his death . |
| 13 | Throughout the tour , his bearing had been one of well-mannered gravity . |
| 14 | He was a vassal , as indeed his father had been forty years earlier . |
| 15 | William was only 34 when his last child was born , while his father had been 43 ; perhaps some form of contraception did account for William and Mary Ann stopping short at those four children ? |
| 16 | She had persuaded herself that her recoil from his touch had been one of distaste rather than one of recognised attraction . |
| 17 | he had gone down without a sound — and by the time he had woken up , his ship had been two days out into the Channel . |
| 18 | His grandfather had been one of the Competitors for the Throne ; but Edward the First had chosen John Balliol , as sufficiently weak to accept him as overlord . |
| 19 | Someone had to do it : his regiment had been one of the unlucky ones . |
| 20 | All-white juries failed to reach a verdict in his two trials in 1964 [ see p. 20209 ] , but new witnesses came forward with evidence of his whereabouts on the night of the killing in Jackson , contradicting his claims to have been 95 miles away in Greenwood . |
| 21 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 22 | I was one of the pillarists in the Nelson case and only wish our column had been one of more magnificent dimensions . |
| 23 | Rolls-Royce spokesman David Preston said : ‘ It is well known that our sales have been 50 per cent down on what they were in 1990 so any reduction is welcome . ’ |