Example sentences of "[noun] has be [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 The essentials of the problem have been thoroughly analysed in the past few years ; the difficulty has been to obtain international agreement on solutions .
4 OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show .
5 The certificate has been granted interim VQ status by the Employment Department for funding and is available in LCCI approved Centres .
6 Stephen March has been made divisional finance officer for West Sussex County Council .
7 The dual responsibilities , to the employer and to the profession , remain problematic : the professional response has been to offer on-line access to ethical guidance .
8 ‘ The trick has been to maintain added value and justify those loans , ’ he says .
9 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 .
10 Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 In a bid to keep the action secret , the case has been called Anonymous I v Anonymous II .
14 The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people .
15 In essence , the effect of medically conceived interpretations and solutions has been to provide institutional care settings and services , often taking over pre-existing custodial arrangements , in which basic nursing care , supervision and protection have been provided , with drug therapy as the major planned ‘ intervention ’ or treatment .
16 Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya .
17 Dr Dennis Strongitharm F has been awarded Honorary Life Membership in recognition of his outstanding service to the Institute .
18 George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years .
19 The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour .
20 OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 .
21 PETER Scantlebury of London Towers has been named English basketball player of the year for 1992 .
22 By far the most important problem that has been selected as providing the push into the invention of crime has been thwarted conventional ambitions — Merton 's ( 1938 ) ‘ anomie ’ theory and the ‘ delinquent subculture ’ theories of Cohen ( 1955 ) and Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ) being the most influential examples .
23 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 .
24 ‘ The overall effect has been to sustain apparent sales volumes and reduce work in progress .
25 None the less , given that sociology did award philosophy a juridical role in determining how sociology should conduct its business , the effect has been to make social research methods extremely sensitive to judgements about whether or not they conform to the appropriate methodological criteria .
26 ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) .
27 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 .
28 Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa .
29 Wisdom Books has been appointed exclusive distributor for Snow Lion Publications , US .
30 Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper .
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