Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] have [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 2 | Just Top service : Stockton trained Edwin Taylor has been nominated the best trainee waiter in Britain the second consecutive year a trainee with the Middlesbrough based Hotel and Catering Training Company has won the award . |
| 3 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 4 | Professor Roger Falconer has been appointed an Overseas External Assessor and Advisor to the Hong Kong Research Grants Council . |
| 5 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 6 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 7 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 8 | Hill Murray has been handling the product , which comprises three healthcare policies for the elderly , since it was launched last June to insurance brokers . |
| 9 | Thirty-two acres of the old Swanage quarries have been designated the Townsend Nature Reserve by the Dorset Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 10 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 11 | TEST cricket 's leading wicket-taker Sir Richard Hadlee has been accorded the unusual honour of having a pea named after him . |
| 12 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 13 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 14 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 15 | The initial objective of the ITE initiative had been to encourage a reorientation of the work supported by ITAB into avenues of relevance to the engineering community , using the existing committee structure as far as possible . |
| 16 | Middlesbrough whistler Jeff Winter has been given the good news that he has been promoted to the Football League middle for the start of next season a distinction held by only 90 referees in the whole of the country . |
| 17 | NOBODY really noticed , but Neil Kinnock has been nursing a chest cold . |
| 18 | Neil Kinnock has been giving a major speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool this afternoon . |
| 19 | Ronnie Convery 's been taking the spiritual temperature of the nation 's main churches . |
| 20 | Experienced Carrick Rangers defender Neil Cummings has been given a free transfer . |
| 21 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 22 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 23 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 24 | The Brazilian pastor Carlos Dreher has been awarded the 1991 Wilhelm-Sebastian-Schmerl prize for his outstanding contribution to Protestant media work in a German speaking context . |
| 25 | A PLAN to put lifesize plastic tourists on Southport seafront has been branded a waste of taxpayers ' money . |
| 26 | Since about mid-June , the Khmers Rouges had been refusing the chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , Yasushi Akashi , access to areas they controlled around Pailin , reports said , even though the peace agreement , which they had signed together with the three other factions , gave him authority to travel anywhere . |
| 27 | " I said Madam Lundy had been sent a telegram — I did n't say she had received it . " |
| 28 | Compressor supplier Atlas Copco 's Washington branch has been awarded the quality accreditation BS5750 . |
| 29 | While , however , Admiral Hawke had been keeping a vigilant eye on Brest , Admiral Edward Boscawen had been busily patrolling off Toulon . |
| 30 | The power of the Hyksos pharaohs has been broken an the upper and Lower kingdoms once again united . |