Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 2 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 3 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 4 | MICHAEL Cannon has been appointed managing director of Sulzer ( UK ) , of Farnborough . |
| 5 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 6 | Stephen March has been made divisional finance officer for West Sussex County Council . |
| 7 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 8 | The site of the old Baptist Tabernacle in Swindon has been cleared ready for redevelopment . |
| 9 | The Rev C. A. Johns wrote six years earlier , in 1862 , ‘ Of late years , so unusual has the occurrence become of Bitterns breeding in this country , that the discovery of an egg in Norfolk has been thought worthy of being recorded in the transactions of the Linnean Society … |
| 10 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 11 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 12 | ‘ … and it is with regret we must inform you that your husband Gerald Patrick McKeown has been reported missing , believed lost at sea as a result of enemy action on the night of 23rd/24th April , 1941 … ’ |
| 13 | DAVE BASSETT has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month . |
| 14 | Dave Bassett has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | President Gorbachev has been granted extensive new powers as the Soviet Union prepares to switch to a market economy . |
| 19 | President Gorbachev has been granted extensive new powers to help the Soviet Union move towards a market economy , but deputies in the Soviet parliament have again postponed a decision about how to introduce the new system . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya . |
| 21 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 22 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 23 | OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 . |
| 24 | PETER Scantlebury of London Towers has been named English basketball player of the year for 1992 . |
| 25 | Ali Shoukeir has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of |
| 26 | ‘ The Dutch Texel has been bred pure for so long that its characteristics of extra hindquarter muscling , minimum bone and minimum fat are stamped firmly on to its crossbred progeny , ’ says Mr Slade . |
| 27 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 28 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 29 | Bernard Houssin has been appointed general manager of the Oak Hotel Group from the Arcade Hotel in Portsmouth , Hampshire . |
| 30 | 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 . |