Example sentences of "[noun prp] has be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL Cannon has been appointed managing director of Sulzer ( UK ) , of Farnborough . |
| 2 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 3 | Stephen March has been made divisional finance officer for West Sussex County Council . |
| 4 | The site of the old Baptist Tabernacle in Swindon has been cleared ready for redevelopment . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | ‘ … 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 … ’ |
| 7 | DAVE BASSETT has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month . |
| 8 | Dave Bassett has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | President Gorbachev has been granted extensive new powers as the Soviet Union prepares to switch to a market economy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya . |
| 13 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 14 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 15 | OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 . |
| 16 | PETER Scantlebury of London Towers has been named English basketball player of the year for 1992 . |
| 17 | Ali Shoukeir has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 20 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 21 | Bernard Houssin has been appointed general manager of the Oak Hotel Group from the Arcade Hotel in Portsmouth , Hampshire . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | BOB HALFPENNY , formerly Area Manager for Pest Control , Scotland and Northern Ireland has been appointed General Manager and President of Rentokil 's Canadian operations . |
| 25 | UNEMPLOYED Derek Auld has been made redundant three times in the last three years . |
| 26 | WIRRAL vicar Cannon Frank Pullen has been appointed new chairman of the Bebington Council of Churches , which comprises 18 member churches of all denominations . |
| 27 | Canon Frank Pullen has been appointed new chairman of the BCC . |
| 28 | By common consent , Ravenscraig has been kept alive since 1982 because workers have broken all production records . |
| 29 | Its founder Peter Ohnemus has been named managing director of the Swiss unit and sales director for central Europe . |
| 30 | Sybase Inc has formed a new subsidiary , Sybase ( Schweiz ) AG in Switzerland through the acquisition of SQL AG , a former Sybase distributor : this acquisition , part of an energetic expansion plan in Europe , gives Sybase its sixth European subsidiary , and the second new one this year ; SQL AG has 250 customer sites , and its founder , Peter Ohnemus has been named managing director of the Swiss unit as well as sales director for central Europe . |