Example sentences of "who have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gil Thompson , chief executive of Manchester International Airport , who has been a tireless supporter of North West economic regeneration , has been knighted for his services to air transport . |
| 2 | A knighthood goes to Gil Thompson , chief executive of Manchester International Airport , who has been a tireless supporter of North West economic regeneration . |
| 3 | They were Miss Margaret ( Peggy ) Herbison , who is the oldest surviving Scottish woman MP , having served in the Labour Party cabinet in the 1960s ; Councillor Sheila Ritchie , who has been a Liberal Democrat councillor in Gordon for a number of years and is at present a member of the party 's National Executive Committee ; and Miss Ann Hay , who is an influential key organiser for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | This is not another knocking piece on Hanley , who has been a great player for club and country . |
| 5 | Sources close to President North indicate that he is deeply shaken by the arrest of Dr Proctor , who has been a frequent guest at the White House and is known to be a close friend of the Norths , and was godfather to little Joey North and to Ollie Jr . |
| 6 | The word is that Bath are being helped by a man who has been a kicking coach in the National League of American Football . |
| 7 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 8 | Susie Cornell , who has been a multiple sclerosis sufferer for 20 years , at the Under Pressure gymnasium |
| 9 | Sam shares a laugh with Suzanne Danielle , who has been a major factor in his return to form |
| 10 | This is a very different Wesker to the public socialist , the man who has been a regular correspondent in newspaper letters pages on major public issues . |
| 11 | At Sotheby 's the following evening , a dim sale was rescued by a package of twenty-one works of art consigned by advertising agent Charles Saatchi , who has been a regular trader through the auction houses in recent years . |
| 12 | I agree with the county court judge , in that I do not think that Lord Greene had in mind what we have to consider here , namely , the position of a tenant , a person who has been a statutory tenant ( I am not begging the question by using the word ‘ tenant ’ but it is a convenient expression ) between the time when the order for possession is made and the time when it falls to be executed having regard to a suspension granted under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |
| 13 | I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa . |
| 14 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 15 | As they culled Who 's Who there was a debate on the executive about the ‘ Old Lord approach ’ — finding someone who had been a financial force in the past , and would prove the paper was commercially sober . |
| 16 | , Helen ( 1860–1925 ) , social reformer and theorist , was born 10 February 1860 in Manchester , the youngest daughter and fifth child in the family of five sons and four daughters of the Revd John Dendy , who had been a Nonconformist minister , and then became a businessman in Manchester , and his wife Sarah Beard , daughter of a Unitarian minister . |
| 17 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 18 | I did n't forget Nelly who had been a good little friend to me , and eventually we did meet up again , several years later . |
| 19 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |
| 20 | It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland . |
| 21 | Teversham 's terms for pretty women had been taken wholesale from his father who had been a young airman in World War II . |
| 22 | He ran a youth club with a man called Jefferson , who had been a regular soldier . |
| 23 | He was a large , imposing man who had been a noted athlete and I am sure he created a favourable impression on my parents . |
| 24 | Why , he kept asking himself , did a woman , trained in the art of healing , who had been a naval medical officer and not somebody 's wife , suddenly volunteer for something that was inevitably going to be highly dangerous — and almost certainly involve her in killing — at close quarters ? |
| 25 | And there was Chernayev who was a thief , and Byrkin who had been a naval Petty Officer , and Mamarev who they said was an informer . |
| 26 | I was with a player from the Vienna Philharmonic who had been a Russian prisoner of war , so he spoke some Russian . |
| 27 | Another source of support was Sir Laurens van der Post , who had also known Mountbatten , and who had been a Japanese prisoner of war in Java . |
| 28 | ‘ The man who had been a rich merchant , and who was now a beggar , had to make brooms for the town . |
| 29 | It took a lot to faze a talented one like that , who had been a successful soloist for two years , managing with having a sick father and about one tenth of his mother 's attention . |
| 30 | In November Lord Woolton , a man of no party affiliation but who had been a successful Minister of Food , was appointed to the task , and was given a seat in the War Cabinet . |