Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales . |
| 2 | Professor Peter Warren of the Classics Department has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Society for Cretan Historical Studies . |
| 3 | S. M. Qaim , CChem , FRSC , has been elected a foreign member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences . |
| 4 | John Dellow , deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , has been elected the new president of the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 5 | I could have told him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Academy Club drinking school run by Oofy Prosser and Stephen Hargrave , in recognition of his services to literature . |
| 6 | Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Pickering of the Department of Anatomy has been elected an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Castlemorton Common near Malvern in Worcester , invaded by 20,000 travellers last year , has been declared a no-go area by the Home Secretary . |
| 8 | A WOODEN Darlington church has been declared a no-go area in bad weather . |
| 9 | The Monument to the People 's Heroes , the stone obelisk in the middle of the square where student leaders had their ‘ command centre ’ , has been declared a forbidden zone because it is felt to have been contaminated by the students ' presence . |
| 10 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 11 | Despite agreement some years ago that seven sites around Britain 's coast needed protection , only one — Lundy Island — has been declared a Marine Nature Reserve so far , writes Dr Madeleine Havard , WWF 's Marine Conservation Officer . |
| 12 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 13 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 15 | LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington . |
| 16 | Investment analyst Eric de Bellaigue ( above ) , who was with Grenfell & Colegrave and latterly with stockbrokers Panmure Gordon until his retirement in January , has been appointed a non-executive director of the Quarto Group . |
| 17 | Sheila Tindle , 28 , has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke . |
| 18 | He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant . |
| 19 | Sarah Lutyens , head of rights , contracts and special sales , has been appointed an associate director of Pan Macmillan . |
| 20 | The deputy head of Morecambe high School , Miss Rachel Totton has been appointed the new head of Whitby School . |
| 21 | UNILEVER senior manager Bill Duncan has been appointed the new chairman of the Wirral NHS Hospital Trust , which manages Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals . |
| 22 | George Robertson , the MP for Hamilton , has been appointed the new Shadow Scottish Secretary . |
| 23 | Rose Holmes , 42 , of Bearpark , Durham , has been appointed the new manager at the AA shop on Corporation Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | Well known broadcaster , author and journalist Jonathan Dimbleby has been appointed the new President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 25 | Andrew has been appointed the temporary administrator . |
| 26 | The tort has been extended a good deal since Lumley v. Gye and in its modern form its requirements may be summarised as follows . |
| 27 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
| 28 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 29 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
| 30 | However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France . |