Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beverley Hilton , editorial director of Eaglemoss Publications , retires on 1st April , but remains on the board ; Isabel Moore , formerly at Octopus , joins the company on 1st April as editorial director ; Jasmine Taylor has been appointed creative director ; and Eluned James continues as managing editor . |
| 2 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 3 | Platelet structure and its relationship to platelet function has been given tremendous impetus , through the application of electromicroscopy to the study of platelet anatomy and the development of techniques for isolation of physiologically active platelets and their preservation for ultrastructural study . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 5 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 6 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 7 | ‘ … and it is with regret we must inform you that your husband Gerald Patrick McKeown has been reported missing , believed lost at sea as a result of enemy action on the night of 23rd/24th April , 1941 … ’ |
| 8 | Uniplex founder , Peter Osbourn , and finance director Dave Jennings have been squeezed out in the re-shuffle , and Patrick Regester , previously head of Uniplex 's international operations division has been appointed managing director , reporting to Amos . |
| 9 | Bernard Houssin has been appointed general manager of the Oak Hotel Group from the Arcade Hotel in Portsmouth , Hampshire . |
| 10 | Welcome back : Today 's budget has confirmed that we will soon have to pay to drive on motorways.But the bulk of the twenty three billion pound road building programme has been left intact . |
| 11 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 12 | Coral Marine have been appointed exclusive distributors in the UK and Eire for Seapen books . |
| 13 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 14 | Sir — Both the government and the opposition parties have been given one clear ringing message by the voters in the election : that environmental issues are of little or no concern to them . |
| 15 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 16 | The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia . |
| 17 | Of course the distillery distillery had been made bigger it er put up the population a good bit . |
| 18 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 19 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 20 | Dr Porteous added that gene therapy testing had been made possible by the genetically-engineered mice developed by the MRC team last year . |
| 21 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 22 | Over the past year so much time and energy has been devoted to considering the implications of the new audit regulatory regime that investment business has been given scant attention by commentators and the profession alike . |
| 23 | Feeling in the East End Bangladeshi community has been running high since Quaddus , 17 , was kicked and punched , suffering serious head injuries , after he and three friends were set upon . |
| 24 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 25 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 26 | Neil Kinnock has been sent three Tyler missives and responded , albeit in plain prose . |
| 27 | More interview rooms have been made available , and a third Cashline machine has been installed in the side entrance . |
| 28 | Tandem Computers Inc veteran Steven Wierenga has been appointed vice president of engineering of Auspex Systems Inc . |
| 29 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 30 | Dennis Finn has been appointed senior account executive of the Stockton office of broking and financial services group CE Heath . |