Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task of introducing TQM has been given to former Group Training Manager , Bob Rae , who was promoted to General Manager , Quality Development in January . |
| 2 | Mrs Helmsley has been sentenced to four years in jail , and could become eligible for parole in 19 months . |
| 3 | Following the restructuring of the Chambers Harrap sales force , Elaine Walker has been promoted to key accounts manager . |
| 4 | Six months on , Sue Hill has been promoted to another department where she sells advertising and loves her job . |
| 5 | Ken Ewen has been promoted to managing director at Redrow Homes ( Northern ) . |
| 6 | Youth coach Kyle has been promoted to assistant manager following David McCreery 's departure from the Victoria Ground . |
| 7 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 8 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 9 | MV370 and HS649 IAF have been restored to static display for museums in Hanover , Germany , and Overloon , Holland , respectively . |
| 10 | Talking of worthwhile investments , the new flats constructed by Norman and David have been put to good use this year and indeed Nor indeed Norman 's sets get better and better . |
| 11 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 12 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 13 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 14 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 15 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 16 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 17 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |
| 18 | There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury . |
| 19 | An environmental statement for a similar store at Hunterston has been circulated to interested parties for comment . |
| 20 | FORMER champion hurdler Beech Road has been cut to 12–1 for Saturday 's Mackeson Gold Cup even though there is an outside chance he could miss the race . |
| 21 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 22 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 23 | A fortnight ago the council decided that security at Castlemeads had been improved to such a degree that the women could start parking there again . |
| 24 | The slope indicates a specific activity of 18,000 units/mg ; for comparison , the specific activity of purified M. Eco RII has been determined to 21,100 units/mg ( 24 ) . |
| 25 | The extraordinary general meeting which was due to take place on 10 October has been rescheduled to 17 October . |
| 26 | A Banbury man known as Psycho has been sentenced to two and a half years in custody for an unprovoked knife attack on a man out walking his dog . |
| 27 | And the other afternoon — crises are always in the afternoon — when Harry , back from an official lunch , comes out of his office and announces , ‘ Gentlemen , I thought you might be interested to know that the location of the Alps has been shifted to Central Africa . ’ |
| 28 | Israel had been subjected to similar harsh international criticism when it had last deported a group of Palestinian activists , in May 1991 [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 29 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 30 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |