Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wheldon & Wesley has been appointed sole distributor for Europe and America by Yasaka Shobo Inc , Japan . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 5 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |
| 6 | He concluded that Lewis had been knocked unconscious before he drowned . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 8 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |
| 9 | Unix Labs says that Novell has been kept abreast of its strategy and efforts in the case , and has indicated its support . |
| 10 | Dr Tom Walker , the head of BP Nutrition , says that BP had been kept aware of developments but had decided not to take part . |
| 11 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |
| 12 | Graham Tennant , 81 , has been writing poetry for a hobby since he was 10 and his poem Looking Back taking a humorous look at the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah has been judged one of the top ten funniest poems in a national competition judged by comedian Ronnie Corbett . |
| 13 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 14 | Further on he writes : " Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne are recorded in the defter each as 300-akce Damascus and Aleppo have been recorded each as 500-akce . |
| 15 | Mindful of the manner in which the fortresses of Liege and Namur had been taken prior to the Battle of the Marne , at relatively little cost , by the use of the new and highly effective howitzer , General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered up a 42cm version of this formidable weapon and commenced the bombardment of the city 's outer fortifications on the night of 27/28 September . |
| 16 | And , according to KPMG Forensic Accounting 's ‘ fraud barometer ’ , the South East and London have been hit heaviest , accounting for 69% of all charged cases worth over £100,000 between January 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 17 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
| 18 | The report says applications to mine at 652 new sites in England and Wales have been made this year . |
| 19 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Oliver was below the salt , as far as Sir Thomas was concerned , and Gwendolen had been placed next to Lord Beddington so that Sir Thomas did not have to look at her . |
| 21 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 22 | She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up . |
| 23 | Linda had her own part-time job helping out at Oxfam and listening to infants read at the nearby Primary School , so she had less time in fact than her husband , for Frank had been made redundant from his job in electronics in October . |
| 24 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |