Example sentences of "have been a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Philip Morris Chairman and CEO , George Weissman , has been a Whitney trustee since 1979 . |
| 2 | There have been Dylanologists almost as long as there has been a Dylan for them to write about . |
| 3 | There has been a Phelps working this reach at least since ‘ Honest John ’ Phelps was the finishing judge of the Boat Race , a duty from which he was forcefully retired after a controversial dead heat in 1859 . |
| 4 | The advent of satellite television and the imminent breaking of what has been a BBC monopoly of cricket offers opportunties of expanding TCCB income . |
| 5 | An active cricketer , Mr. Phillips has been a Havant councillor for the past 12 years , being chairman last year . |
| 6 | Julie Clark has been a Glosters wife for 14 years . |
| 7 | In each case it has been a West Indian pupil rather than an Asian child . |
| 8 | She has been a J.P . |
| 9 | He has been a SCOTVEC examiner since 1984 and is involved with SCOTVEC 's Advanced Accounting courses , and in the teaching of Professional Accounting and Banking courses . |
| 10 | Eddie Titcomb , manager of Pensions and Equity Participation , joined in September 1976 as the company accountant and assistant secretary and has been a LASMO man ever since . |
| 11 | James has been a James today . |
| 12 | MARY BAILEY has been a PFK regular for many years . |
| 13 | C F Knight ( 57 ) has been a BP director since 1987 . |
| 14 | and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years . |
| 15 | Anyway he immediately started saying how he 'd been a Leeds fan since the age of five and how his big ambition was to play for them ! |
| 16 | Dwight Kronweiser too shook his head at the thought : if only there could have been a Machin Archive at the University of East Louisiana . |
| 17 | I tried to see the people , but no picture would come , although among the shadowy figures might well have been a Peter de Fernborough , later Farmborough , who about that time made his appearance somewhere in the village . |
| 18 | It might have been a Seiko , but I could n't be sure . |
| 19 | The same may be true of its addition to the 1018 entry that the meeting between Danes and English at Oxford agreed to observe Edgar 's law , which was probably taken from chapter 13 of the Letter of 1019 – 20 , now preserved only in a York manuscript , although there may have been a Worcester copy too . |
| 20 | With a little more attention to the parser it could have been a Sizzler , but even as it stands it 's well worth your dosh so get out there and part with it at once ! |
| 21 | She had , after all , a wedding ring on her finger , so there must have been a Mr Salt . |
| 22 | It could have been a Texas screw-worm , another cattle pest which occasionally gets people by mistake — the battered remains were hard to identify . |
| 23 | A pirate who might have been a Susan in his Dreams . |
| 24 | You must have been a Leeds fan subconciously before : - ) ) |
| 25 | It would have been a Wednesday afternoon , if I 'm not mistaken . |
| 26 | It must have been a Saturday or else Lewis for some reason or other was on holiday from work . |
| 27 | Granpa thought it could well have been a Saturday , felt it most likely the month had been January , was confident the year was 1900 , and knew it was in the reign of Queen Victoria . |
| 28 | Peter the Great had a particular liking for Scots , probably influenced by his mother who had been reared by a Scotswoman , and by his own guardian after his father 's death having been a General Menzies . |
| 29 | He also falsified his qualifications , including a Master of Business Administration diploma from the Madison Business School in the United States , and claimed to have been a Laker Airways manager and an executive with the failed Polly Peck international conglomerate . |
| 30 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |