Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Dellow , deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , has been elected the new president of the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 2 | Unfortunately yet again the servicer has been denied the adequate resources available to implement decent care . |
| 3 | Expenses cashier Fiona Smith has been collecting the small change when people have returned from overseas business trips and holidays over the last six months . |
| 4 | The deputy head of Morecambe high School , Miss Rachel Totton has been appointed the new head of Whitby School . |
| 5 | UNILEVER senior manager Bill Duncan has been appointed the new chairman of the Wirral NHS Hospital Trust , which manages Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals . |
| 6 | George Robertson , the MP for Hamilton , has been appointed the new Shadow Scottish Secretary . |
| 7 | Rose Holmes , 42 , of Bearpark , Durham , has been appointed the new manager at the AA shop on Corporation Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | Well known broadcaster , author and journalist Jonathan Dimbleby has been appointed the new President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 9 | Andrew has been appointed the temporary administrator . |
| 10 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 11 | Joe has been learning the great man 's speeches and studying his mannerisms , but does he really look likely Winston at all ? |
| 12 | When this has been done the common problems of analysis can be dealt with . |
| 13 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 14 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 15 | The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings . |
| 16 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 17 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 18 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 19 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 20 | The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences . |
| 21 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |
| 22 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 23 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
| 24 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
| 25 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 26 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 27 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 28 | Foreman , 43 , has been made the overwhelming favourite to earn his 26th win since he began his unlikely comeback five years ago . |
| 29 | Jonathan Phiri has been made the Acting Director of the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe , Zambia . |
| 30 | When all the C F C gas has been collected the cooling flask around this coil is replaced with one containing boiling water . |