Example sentences of "recently [been] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee had recently been elected chairman of the Co-opted Resource Centre , a group set up by 21 conservative councillors within Legco following the election of liberal councillors from the United Democrats of Hong Kong in September [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 2 | John by the way has recently been elected President of our Energy and Utilities section . |
| 3 | He had recently been appointed Deputy Head in a big , new , comprehensive school in South London , and his evenings were taken up with meetings and an occasional television programme : the comprehensive principle was attracting a lot of public interest and Richard was good at arguing and putting a case , besides looking very handsome on the screen . |
| 4 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 5 | Sydney Possuelo , a strong advocate of Indian rights who has recently been appointed head of Brazil 's Indian agency FUNAI , has put new impetus behind the massive initiative , ‘ Operation Free Jungle ’ , set up to rid the Yanomami land of gold miners . |
| 6 | Mike Tooby has recently been appointed Director of the New Tate Gallery , St Ives |
| 7 | been near to a site which had recently been granted planning permission for use as a waste disposal site . |
| 8 | Maclean , a Cambridge contemporary of Burgess , fellow Apostle , and fellow communist , had recently been made head of the American department at the Foreign Office . |