Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | MICHAEL Cannon has been appointed managing director of Sulzer ( UK ) , of Farnborough . |
| 3 | Stephen March has been made divisional finance officer for West Sussex County Council . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That in view of the foregoing considerations we ask you to ask the Masters " Association to delay any decision hurtful to the interests of women compositors until the women 's case has been given full consideration . |
| 7 | Dr Dennis Strongitharm F has been awarded Honorary Life Membership in recognition of his outstanding service to the Institute . |
| 8 | PETER Scantlebury of London Towers has been named English basketball player of the year for 1992 . |
| 9 | This deformity has been termed cranial settling , superior migration of the odontoid , or atlantoaxial impaction and is seen almost exclusively in association with atlantoaxial subluxation . |
| 10 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 11 | Wisdom Books has been appointed exclusive distributor for Snow Lion Publications , US . |
| 12 | Bernard Houssin has been appointed general manager of the Oak Hotel Group from the Arcade Hotel in Portsmouth , Hampshire . |
| 13 | Appointments announced by the York Diocese include the Rev Catherine Durnford , assistant curate at Whitby , who has been appointed assistant curate at Redcar ; the Rev Christopher Morgan becomes vicar of St Hilda 's , York , and the Rev Simon Wright has been re-appointed Rural Dean of Middlesbrough for five years . |
| 14 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 15 | The French President , François Mitterrand , confirmed on Oct. 15 that Aoun had been granted political asylum as a " question of honour " and that he would be allowed to remain in the embassy indefinitely . |
| 16 | These anomalous crustal fragments have been given various names-suspect terrane , allochthonous terrane-but we will use the term displaced terrane ( Note that in this book the spelling ‘ terrane ’ is used to refer to structural units whereas ‘ terrain' is applied in a topographic sense . ) |
| 17 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 18 | OFFICIALS of an apparently doomed workingmen 's club have been given fresh hope that it could survive . |
| 19 | BOB HALFPENNY , formerly Area Manager for Pest Control , Scotland and Northern Ireland has been appointed General Manager and President of Rentokil 's Canadian operations . |
| 20 | WIRRAL vicar Cannon Frank Pullen has been appointed new chairman of the Bebington Council of Churches , which comprises 18 member churches of all denominations . |
| 21 | Canon Frank Pullen has been appointed new chairman of the BCC . |
| 22 | Amid all the speculation about the future of our great Taoiseach , one issue has been given scant consideration : what is the quality of those who are being identified as his likely successors ? |
| 23 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 24 | The Institute has been given legal advice to the effect that there is a possibility that the defence of qualified or absolute privilege might be available , but it would be up to the courts to decide and the only way of finding out would be a test case . |
| 25 | Its founder Peter Ohnemus has been named managing director of the Swiss unit and sales director for central Europe . |
| 26 | Sybase Inc has formed a new subsidiary , Sybase ( Schweiz ) AG in Switzerland through the acquisition of SQL AG , a former Sybase distributor : this acquisition , part of an energetic expansion plan in Europe , gives Sybase its sixth European subsidiary , and the second new one this year ; SQL AG has 250 customer sites , and its founder , Peter Ohnemus has been named managing director of the Swiss unit as well as sales director for central Europe . |
| 27 | The development of the gardens has been given high priority and there is a large variety of named trees and shrubs . |
| 28 | Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody . |
| 29 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 30 | So Louise got quite a shock when , flicking through the local paper she saw that ANOTHER girl had been crowned carnival queen . |