Example sentences of "have been a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Former Philip Morris Chairman and CEO , George Weissman , has been a Whitney trustee since 1979 .
2 Where there has been a gang fight , as a result of which one of the participants is injured , it is sometimes impossible to prove who was responsible for causing the injury ( because of the general mêleé , and because of identification difficulties when the incident occurred at night ) .
3 Japan has been a problem area for E&Y since its merger in 1989 .
4 Mayotte , part of the Comoro archipelago , is administered by France and has been a collectivité territoriale since December 1976 [ see also above ] ; it has its own 17-member elected General Council , sends one deputy to the National Assembly in Paris and one member to the senate .
5 What they have combined with this has been a church growth philosophy that has been remarkably successful .
6 As a result of new technology there has been a 50% job loss in the US .
7 Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it .
8 Britain has been a loser country in a manifestly unfair trade environment .
9 Handing them over to people outside government who know their local community has been a quantum leap in the delivery of Government policies in the important areas of training and skills .
10 There has been a quantum leap in the range and quality of wines marketed in the UK .
11 Christine has been a nursery school teacher for 27 years , which undoubtedly helped .
12 Indeed , each of the five times since 1915 that there has been a minority government in power it has been Labour , dependent either on the Liberals ' support , their abstentions , or on all the other parties not uniting to defeat them .
13 General practice research has been a minority activity and underfunded in the past
14 This has been a minority view for 15 years or more , but one kept alive by the persistent efforts of Chip Arp , of the California Institute of Technology , who has over the years produced a series of photographs which show objects with very different redshifts that are physically connected by streamers of material .
15 PC Coupland has been a country bobby for 20 years .
16 This was the first time there has been a flower show at Hampton Court Palace , and in my opinion it is a wonderful innovation which I hope will become an annual event .
17 When the door closed Harvey poured more coffee for us both , and said , ‘ This has been a spectator sport for you so far , but now you are going to join the men . ’
18 Graeme Fowler , Gehan Mendis and the skipper Neil Fairbrother have all been ruled out with injuries , but there has been a plus side with the way young lads like Nick Speak , Graham Lloyd , Steve Titchard and Peter Martin have responded .
19 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 .
20 But death — specifically heroin-induced — has been a talking point amidst US underground circles recently .
21 As the Regional Library Bureau for Scotland , Lending Services , in common with the other Regional Library Services in the UK , has been a Founder Member of the Library and Information Co-operation Council since its inception in 1988 .
22 The advent of satellite television and the imminent breaking of what has been a BBC monopoly of cricket offers opportunties of expanding TCCB income .
23 In the recent past Stephen has been a rebel hero , and despite his good intentions he is pressurised into rejoining the terrorist cause .
24 My wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years .
25 Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ .
26 It 's just that if there has been a price increase , then the end date wants changing as well . . .
27 Noel Hayes , a stockbroker who in his time has been a building analyst and up until the beginnig of this year was head of sales at Citicorp-Scrimgeour Vickers , becomes chief executive and Sam Oxford , the former chairman of Magnet & Southerns , joins as a non-executive director .
28 It has been a public relations exercise for this week 's by-elections .
29 This may be the case where there has been a separation order , a decree nisi for divorce , a non-molestation order , or a separation agreement between the parties .
30 An active cricketer , Mr. Phillips has been a Havant councillor for the past 12 years , being chairman last year .
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