Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 2 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 3 | MICHAEL Cannon has been appointed managing director of Sulzer ( UK ) , of Farnborough . |
| 4 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 5 | Stephen March has been made divisional finance officer for West Sussex County Council . |
| 6 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 7 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 10 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya . |
| 12 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 13 | OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 . |
| 14 | PETER Scantlebury of London Towers has been named English basketball player of the year for 1992 . |
| 15 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 16 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 17 | Bernard Houssin has been appointed general manager of the Oak Hotel Group from the Arcade Hotel in Portsmouth , Hampshire . |
| 18 | Appointments announced by the York Diocese include the Rev Catherine Durnford , assistant curate at Whitby , who has been appointed assistant curate at Redcar ; the Rev Christopher Morgan becomes vicar of St Hilda 's , York , and the Rev Simon Wright has been re-appointed Rural Dean of Middlesbrough for five years . |
| 19 | The burning of hospital waste is certainly relevant in my area because , for years St. George 's hospital , Tooting has been burning enormous quantities of such waste — often for days on end . |
| 20 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 21 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 24 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 28 | BOB HALFPENNY , formerly Area Manager for Pest Control , Scotland and Northern Ireland has been appointed General Manager and President of Rentokil 's Canadian operations . |
| 29 | WIRRAL vicar Cannon Frank Pullen has been appointed new chairman of the Bebington Council of Churches , which comprises 18 member churches of all denominations . |
| 30 | Canon Frank Pullen has been appointed new chairman of the BCC . |