Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 2 | Whereas other books ( especially those on semantics and pragmatics ) have often received unfavourable reviews , Style in Fiction has received the most favourable reviews of any book of which I have been an author . |
| 3 | In a ‘ victim survey ’ , such as the British Crime Survey of 1983 , a sample of the population is asked to give details of any crime of which they have been a victim in the previous year . |
| 4 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 5 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
| 6 | In 1965 he resigned from Sinn Féin , of which he had been a vice-president , because of its refusal to recognise the legitimacy of both governments in Ireland . |
| 7 | I wanted to include his doctors and nurses at both hospitals in which he had been a patient , and our friends in the residential home . |
| 8 | Lord Bridge then gave his reasons for acknowledging that the Court of Appeal , of which he had been a member , in De Falco v. Crawley Borough Council was wrong to hold that a challenge to a housing authority 's decision on intentional homelessness could be made by action as well as by judicial review , and continued , at p. 294 : |
| 9 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
| 10 | He bequeathed his valuable genealogical collections to the Society of Antiquaries , of which he had been a fellow since 1901 . |
| 11 | Although in theory Gow disapproved of all art later than 1500 except for Rembrandt , Velázquez , and , with some reservations , Rubens , he left to the Fitzwilliam Museum , of which he had been a syndic from 1934 to 1957 , twenty-four works by Degas and six each by Rodin and Forain . |
| 12 | A selection of such writings appeared posthumously as Essays in Jewish History ( 1934 ) under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England , of which he had been a principal founder . |
| 13 | In his will he left sizeable sums for schools he had built in his home parishes , as well as for Christ 's Hospital , of which he had been a donation governor in 1833 . |
| 14 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 15 | When conflict between Ken McFaul , a founder member of the DUP and an ex-mayor of Carrickfergus , and other DUP members reached the point of McFaul being expelled from the Party ( and simultaneously resigning ) , he also left the Free Presbyterian Church of which he had been an elder . |
| 16 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 17 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not able to join us in Committee because I have enjoyed his contributions in previous Committees of which he has been a member . |
| 18 | Yet the harsh fact remains that Rushdie has won much greater commitment from politicians elsewhere than from those in the country of which he has been a citizen for a quarter of a century . |
| 19 | The Nikola Petkov Bulgarian Agrarian Party ( BZNS ) campaigned separately from the UDF , of which it had been a partner in the 1990 elections . |
| 20 | The opening ceremony represented Courtaulds ' opportunity to rededicate itself to a business in which it has been a world leader throughout most of this century … |
| 21 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |