Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside and was the Deputy Chief Constable of Lancashire before coming to Gloucestershire in ninteen eighty seven . |
| 2 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 3 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 4 | One week there had been fifty fridge doors outside his office , another week forty or fifty bicycle frames , although Robert had not so far caught sight of a single chain , tyre , wheel or handlebar . |
| 5 | Now that 's unusual , because for the last five or six budgets have always been Labour/Liberal Democrat budgets . |
| 6 | Killy had been triple gold medallist four years previously at Grenoble . |
| 7 | Since the formation of the system there have been eleven exchange rate realignments , the last one implemented in January 1987 ; ( b ) inducing a reduction of , and an increasing degree of convergence among members countries ' inflation rates ; ( c ) generating , as a result of ( a ) and ( b ) , a greater degree of real exchange rate predictability ; ( d ) encouraging lower and more convergent national money supply growth rates ; ( e ) reducing the variability of national inflation , money supply growth and interest rates . |
| 8 | The tot , aged five months , had been suffering breathing difficulties . |
| 9 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 10 | They have been issuing equity instruments ( eg , convertible bonds and warrant bonds ) on the capital markets rather than going to their bank managers for costly old-fashioned loans . |
| 11 | However , for several years now there have been low cost cameras like Polaroid 's Palette that provided a quick and effective alternative for those who either needed total confidentiality or were simply rather less fussy about the quality . |
| 12 | Sydney and Brisbane have always been strong rugby cities but Perth 's astonishing ratings figures have delighted the ARFU . |
| 13 | The programmers have n't been complete bar stools though , 'coz Steg does receive some help . |
| 14 | They 've been bloody computer games in work , the chuffs . |
| 15 | ‘ My theory has always been that working practices and the way that careers are structured are not really compatible with having a family as well . |
| 16 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 17 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 18 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 19 | A significant milestone has been that product revenues for the AViiON line finally surpassed those of the proprietary Eclipse MV products . |
| 20 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |
| 21 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 22 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 23 | Since its construction almost thirty years before there had been little capital investment . |
| 24 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 25 | It has been French State policy over the last twelve years to foster its provincial museums , and in particular to increase the number of contemporary art museums outside Paris ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 26 | In July 1916 there had been 978,112 state pensioners ; by 1924 there were 916,771 , over 61,000 fewer . |
| 27 | From the windows of Le Club Zodiaque , the street lights made precise geometric patterns : amazingly , there had been careful town planning . |
| 28 | There have been electronic publishing systems for many years but these were , and generally still are , expensive in the extreme . |
| 29 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 30 | In 1980 , with interest rates as high as 20% and an 8% required reserve , the implicit cost of issuing a domestic CD would have been 174 basis points ( 20%/0.92=21.74% ) . |