Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Adult Basic Education Society ( ABES ) of Pakistan has been awarded the UNESCO Award 1991 for non-formal basic education . |
| 2 | Crosby has been preparing the Roker side for an FA Cup semi-final against Norwich City at Hillsbrough this Sunday with the official title of first team coach . |
| 3 | The Japanese community who live on the reef have been awarded the Peter Scott Merit Award in recognition of the 11 years they have spent fighting the development . |
| 4 | Thirty-two acres of the old Swanage quarries have been designated the Townsend Nature Reserve by the Dorset Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 5 | Soviet President Mikael Gorbachov has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 6 | It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends . |
| 7 | In recognition of their magnanimity , the original Beaux-Arts portion of the museum has been christened the Tanenbaum Centre of European Art . |
| 8 | This discovery has been named the Lennox field and development options are already under consideration . |
| 9 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 10 | And frogmen have been dragging the River Severn near Hardwicke looking for clues . |
| 11 | CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE 's Atlanta , Georgia ( Dixie ) Wing has been assigned the CAF 's Douglas SBD Dauntless for restoration ( illustrated ) . |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 13 | Bugatti has been using the Clermont Ferrand race track in central France for development work , courtesy of the circuit 's owner , Michelin . |
| 14 | According to documents leaked to a newspaper , the French Secret Service has been monitoring the Soka Gakkai Buddhist group which has set up bases near to nuclear reactors and research centres . |
| 15 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 16 | Thames Valley police officers have been telling the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke they need more people and resources to do the job . |
| 17 | Its aim in threatening to intercept the Dae Hung Ho had been to underscore the US position against missile proliferation in the region . |
| 18 | For at least twenty-five years , Western policy had been to help the Shah destroy all alternatives to his own rule . |
| 19 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 20 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 21 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
| 22 | His first choice had been to combine the Tchaikovsky concerto with a complete recording of the composer 's Souvenir d'un lieu cher ( Op. 42 ) , in the orchestrated version by Glazunov . |
| 23 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 24 | It is quite obvious that the government have been gearing the NHS up for this plan for some time . |
| 25 | Health-seekers have been taking the Buxton waters since Roman times |
| 26 | The restaurant has been awarded the Les Routiers ‘ Casserole ’ of excellence for the past four years . |
| 27 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 28 | Diana had been blaming the Highlands for what was a far more fundamental malady . |
| 29 | Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict . |
| 30 | For the past two years , the West Midlands police have been reinvestigating the Birmingham pub bombings , the results are soon to be sent to the crown prosecution service . |