Sentence examples for have been sole from inspiring English sources

Villarreal are the 40th team to have been sole leaders of the league and only nine of them have ever won it: Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao, Madrid, Atlético, Betis, Valencia, Sevilla, Real Sociedad and Deportivo de La Coruña.

Analysing the power struggles taking place within the dancer's home company, the Kirov Ballet, and within the Russian ruling elite, it suggests that the dancer may not have been sole author of his destiny, but instead was a pawn on a complicated political chessboard.

If so, T. rex, as its name implies, would have been sole king of the neighborhood.

Mr. Lewis has been sole head of the banking division since February 2001.

For the past 10 years he has been sole shareholder in a limited company with eight employees.

He has been sole host of the show since 1990, when his father retired.

It will be doing so without Ted Scott, who has been sole manager since 2000 and involved its running more or less since it launched.

His handpicked successor and stylist Maria Matarazzo took over in 1989, and has been sole owner of the world headquarters salon/ products division ever since.

Since 1982, Mr. Wheeler, who is almost 57 -- he was born on Feb. 29, 1944, a leap year -- has been sole owner of what amounts to a private fief.

Paulson has been sole chief executive of Goldman since 1999, when he prevailed in a coup that forced the ouster of former co-CEO Jon Corzine.

Beeks has been sole chairman for almost 25 years but a club statement said the joint chairmanship was intended "to ensure continuity during what is expected to be a very challenging period".