Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the restructuring of the Chambers Harrap sales force , Elaine Walker has been promoted to key accounts manager . |
| 2 | Ken Ewen has been promoted to managing director at Redrow Homes ( Northern ) . |
| 3 | Youth coach Kyle has been promoted to assistant manager following David McCreery 's departure from the Victoria Ground . |
| 4 | MV370 and HS649 IAF have been restored to static display for museums in Hanover , Germany , and Overloon , Holland , respectively . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury . |
| 7 | An environmental statement for a similar store at Hunterston has been circulated to interested parties for comment . |
| 8 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 12 | Leslie Tood has been promoted to chief solicitor following two years as legal services manager . |
| 13 | NO wonder Princess Diana has been driven to desperate measures . |
| 14 | The government announced that on Sept. 8 Venezuela had been admitted to full membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 15 | The fact that the South East contains a disproportionately high number of professional and managerial inhabitants , that transportation is generally quicker and easier because of the flatter terrain , and that industry and population from London have been relocated to surrounding satellite towns have all conspired to spread the ex-urban population far out into the metropolitan hinterland . |
| 16 | Because the Codds have been used to tiller-steered boats , they were very keen that Sparkle be similarly equipped . |
| 17 | Paul Heyes has been promoted to managing director of the Northern region of Compass , the food service management company . |
| 18 | Dirk has been farming to biodynamic and organic principles at Busses Farm since 1978 and holds the Soil Association Symbol on the milk from his dairy herd and yoghurt . |
| 19 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 20 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 21 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |