Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louisville , USA : , technical services representative for Porter International , has been elected treasurer of the Ohio Chapter of the Steel Structures Painting Council ( SSPC ) . |
| 2 | Air Vice-Marshal D G Bailey has been elected Chairman to succeed Sir Charles . |
| 3 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 4 | Don Macro , of Brompton Walk , Darlington , has been elected chairman of the town 's Talking Newspaper for the Blind . |
| 5 | STUART Renton , MBE , DA , ARSA , FRIBA , FRIAS , has been elected chairman of the board of governors of Edinburgh College of Art , He succeeds Martin Huggins , chairman since January 1991 . |
| 6 | THE Rev James Derrick Tyney has been elected Canon of Belfast Cathedral in succession to Canon Norman Woodrow . |
| 7 | Bishop Fortunatus Lukanima of Arusha , Tanzania , has been elected Bishop responsible for AMECEA ( the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa ) as well as Chairman of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference 's Social Communication Department . |
| 8 | Rev Dick Avi has been elected Chairperson of WACC 's Pacific Regional Association . |
| 9 | FORMER Clwyd county councillor Barbara Roberts has been elected chairwoman of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales 's Flint Branch , which covers Alyn and Deeside , Delyn and Rhuddlan . |
| 10 | But first , Boris Yeltsin the man sacked by President Gorbachov as Moscow Communist Party Chief , has been elected leader of the Russian Federation ; Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful Republic . |
| 11 | Professor J.M. Bately ( Janet Summers ) has been elected Fellow of the British Academy . |
| 12 | Dr Helen Ross , Reader in Psychology University of Stirling , has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Alain Gourd , Canada 's Deputy Minister of Communications , has been elected President of the International Institute of Communications , a UK-based organisation which undertakes communication research and policy analysis … |
| 14 | Redgrave and Lopham Fen in Norfolk , one of the two remaining haunts of the great raft spider , has been declared England 's 143rd National Nature Reserve . |
| 15 | EVEN though Marion Plock has been declared brain dead , her unborn baby should be given the chance to live . |
| 16 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 17 | Japan has been hunting minke whales in the Antarctic for " research " purposes . |
| 18 | And finally , an animal sanctuary threatened with closure because of a cash shortage has been saved thanks to Central South viewers . |
| 19 | The classic mistake has been to confuse experiences involved in learning with all other kinds of experience which the animal can have during its development ( see Lehrman , 1970 ) . |
| 20 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 21 | ( Even the Shadow Home Secretary has been denied access . ) |
| 22 | The final insult has been moving Coronation Street forward half an hour to show European Cup games . |
| 23 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |
| 24 | The total area of the site which has been developed runs to about 60,000 sq ft . |
| 25 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 26 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 27 | Since 1946 the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) has been promoting literacy ‘ both as a human right and as an instrument of liberation and development ’ . |
| 28 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 29 | The commission has been collecting evidence about the torture and ‘ disappearance ’ of the military regime 's political opponents , from victims and their families and from the armed forces . |
| 30 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |