Example sentences of "have been [verb] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | EVEN though Marion Plock has been declared brain dead , her unborn baby should be given the chance to live . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Neville D Jayaweera , WACC 's former director of Studies and Planning , has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Sri Lanka in the Nordic countries — Denmark , Finland , Norway and Sweden , and based in Stockholm . |
| 5 | Graham Randell , 47 , has been appointed deputy general managing director at Greggs of Gosforth , the Stock Exchange listed bakery company . |
| 6 | Prof I. R. Falconer , CChem , FRSC , has been appointed deputy vice chancellor of the University of Adelaide , Australia . |
| 7 | Nicholas Garnett has been appointed Director General of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , based in London , UK . |
| 8 | Ian Fleming ( 39 ) FCA , has been appointed Group financial controller . |
| 9 | Harry Scott ( 81 ) , from Jordanstown has been telling stories all his life . |
| 10 | The point has been to set people free from constraints ; and leave them free to take advantage of the opportunities around them . |
| 11 | Dorothy Tyson has been made churchwarden emeritus of St Nicholas 's Church , North Grimston near Malton , after completing 30 years as warden . |
| 12 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 13 | Jenny Pitman 's been hit with flu … so assistant David Stait has been getting Gary ready for the gold cup … |
| 14 | Claire McGahan has been to visit Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor to try and uncover the secret of success that has put the Co Down girls ' school into the spotlight . |
| 15 | Part of the process has been to leave melodies incomplete , in an enigmatic and obscure fashion , sacrificing them to the technical prowess of symphonic ‘ textures ’ which perhaps have a greater degree of interest and a more intellectually appealing complexity . |
| 16 | Steve Denny has been serving Morland bitter at his pub in Oxford for six years . |
| 17 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 18 | W Bradford Wiley has retired as chairman of the board of John Wiley & Sons Inc , though he is continuing as director of the company , and has been named chairman emeritus . |
| 19 | The centre has been allocated £10 million in funds over the next five years . |
| 20 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON has been offering Manchester United to a circle of prominent businessmen in the North-west in an effort to salvage his £20m takeover of the club , it emerged yesterday . |
| 21 | The company has been finding competition strong and experienced a slow seasonal start . |
| 22 | ROBIN MICHAEL , 16 , a pianist from Kirkcaldy , has been awarded Radio 2 's John Dankworth Trophy for the most promising musician . |
| 23 | ‘ He has been scoring goals all season and will be a big loss to the side . |
| 24 | For the sequel , he has been guaranteed £3 million plus five per cent of takings . |
| 25 | France has been paying US$20 million a year to have nuclear waste reprocessed in Russia , reportedly at the Tomsk plant . |
| 26 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 27 | Katharine Church has been painting portraits all her life , and at nearly 80 , has come to the conclusion that women portraitists are handicapped both by marriage ( in her case , to Anthony West , son of Rebecca West and H. G. Wells ) , and by the subjects they are ‘ allowed ’ to paint . |
| 28 | Ann has been attending tree healing sessions for several months now . |
| 29 | ‘ He 'd been writing cheques all weekend on a closed account , ’ Vicky says . |
| 30 | They were n't even genuine improvisations : he 'd been scribbling verses all day . |