Example sentences of "have been [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 2 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
| 3 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 4 | HUGH Halcro Johnson , a farmer at Orphir , has been elected the vice-convener of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 5 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 6 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 7 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 8 | One of Britain 's most popular athletes has been sharing the secret of his success with a group of schoolchildren . |
| 9 | But since mid-September , Klensch has been sharing the spotlight in CNN 's new Style programme , co-hosted by Christie Brinkley . |
| 10 | These cases seem to indicate that the effect of RSC Ord. 53 , r. 3(7) has been to liberalize the law of standing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Their lawyers say the couple have been robbed of the opportunity to become a mother and father and the child has been denied the chance to nurtured by the ‘ these loving parents ’ . |
| 13 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |
| 14 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
| 15 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 16 | The main idea here has been to exploit the existence of particles known as ‘ muons ’ which in some ways behave like electrons , but are some 207 times heavier and are unstable . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 19 | Alan Armstrong , Senior Professional Technical Officer , has been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order ( MVO ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | JIM WELLS , who recently retired as training director of the North West Training Council has been appointed a director of their main board . |
| 22 | Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department . |
| 23 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 24 | Dr David Walker , Chief Inspector of Historic Buildings , has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . |
| 25 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 26 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 27 | The current Government 's approach to local government finance — most notably through the poll tax fiasco — has been to destroy the independence of local authorities by reducing their powers to raise and spend revenue . |
| 28 | The try that has been reckoned the try of the World Cup ensures that . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |