Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
| 2 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 3 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 4 | In stark terms , B has been denied a judgment by a tribunal which had agreed that certain issues should be heard by it and upon which it had heard argument . |
| 5 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 6 | John Akast , an assistant recorder from the same East Anglian chambers and based in Ipswich , has been appointed a Recorder to the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 7 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 8 | Alan Armstrong , Senior Professional Technical Officer , has been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order ( MVO ) . |
| 9 | Mrs Ann M Vinton , the chairman and co-founder of The Reject Shop plc , has been appointed a member of the Covent Garden Market Authority . |
| 10 | JIM WELLS , who recently retired as training director of the North West Training Council has been appointed a director of their main board . |
| 11 | Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department . |
| 12 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 13 | Monetary targets have been extended with the narrow money supply target remaining at zero to 4 per cent while the broad money target range has been widened a point on either side to between 3 and 9 per cent . |
| 14 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 15 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 16 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 17 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |
| 18 | The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime . |
| 19 | The map of the London Underground , which can be seen inside every train , on all stations , on the back of the London A-Z guide , on tea-cloths on sale at the London Transport Museum , on posters , in diaries and in sundry other places , has been called a model of its kind , a work of art . |
| 20 | SCOTVEC has been addressing a number of issues including : |
| 21 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
| 22 | Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of |
| 23 | East Cleveland academic Dr Mike Featherstone , 45 , of Marske Lane , Skelton , has been made a professor by Teesside Polytechnic on the eve of its elevation to university status . |
| 24 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 25 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 26 | The southern icy continent has been yielding a harvest of strange meteorites |
| 27 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 28 | Ekaterina Likhoda from the Sverdlovsk region , 200 miles from Moscow , has been sent a copy of Chester-le-Street business club 's guide to starting a new business . |
| 29 | CYCLOSPORIN-A , a drug that can prevent the body rejecting bone-marrow transplants , has been given a licence for general use in Britain . |
| 30 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |