Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [noun prp] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since July 1985 Herbie has been Armagh Area Secretary . |
| 2 | In December 1991 Salonga had been ousted as president of the Senate , and had been replaced by Nepatali Gonzales , a member of the LDP . |
| 3 | In December 1991 Keating had been found guilty in a Californian state court on 17 counts of fraud [ see p. 38669 ] . |
| 4 | England international Dixon has been ridiculed by the chant , ‘ if Lee Dixon plays for England , so can I ’ , but has so far refused to talk about it . |
| 5 | The government announced that on Sept. 8 Venezuela had been admitted to full membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 6 | In May 1989 Saibou had been elected head of the country 's new supreme ruling body , a half-military and half-civilian Conseil Superieure d'Orientation National ( CSON — Higher Council for National Orientation ) . |
| 7 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 8 | When the surgeon had departed , Morse turned with unwarranted ferocity upon his ill-used sergeant : ‘ You told me , Lewis , that Mr Eddie bloody Stratton had been missing in quite extraordinarily suspicious circumstances since early afternoon , and that a frenetically distraught Ashenden had rung you up — ’ |
| 9 | In November 1633 Crowe had been appointed ambassador at Constantinople , though he was unable to take up the appointment for another five years . |
| 10 | Wolves 2 , Cambridge 1 CAMBRIDGE United 's bid to gatecrash the Premier League received a distinct setback at Molineux , writes Brian Marshall . |
| 11 | PILOT projects for a safety system aimed at preventing disasters like that at Clapham last December have been approved by British Rail . |
| 12 | On March 25 Cepaitis had been convicted by the Supreme Court of having " deliberately co-operated with the KGB [ former Soviet state security committee ] " , an accusation first made in November 1991 . |
| 13 | The prosecution alleged that on the day of the murder in September 1991 Bartman had been in a bad mood . |
| 14 | On Dec. 4 Koirala had been quoted in Katmandu as saying that Nepal would not allow its territory to be used as bases by activists from the Indian states of Punjab , Kashmir and Assam . |
| 15 | Bull Worldwide Telco has been set up the ‘ better to co-ordinate Bull 's telco strategy and solutions , and to develop new group skills and expertise within the domain . ’ |
| 16 | DUP This SPR has been specified more than once in the scrolled area . |
| 17 | DUP This SPR has been specified more than once in the scrolled area . |
| 18 | As an autonomous region , Tibet ( Xizang ) has its own legislature ( Local People 's Congress , whose Chairman is currently Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme ) and is administered by a People 's Government ( whose Chairman is currently Doje Cering ) ; since pro-independence demonstrations in September and October 1987 [ see pp. 35716-17 ] security has been largely controlled from Beijing , and since March 1989 Lhasa has been under martial law [ see pp. 36521-22 ] . |
| 19 | So far in the case of E. Coli seven major groups of plasmid encoded TMP resistant DHFRs have been identified and more will probably be found . |
| 20 | On April 18 Ershad had been moved to Dhaka central prison from the Gulsham villa where he had been detained since his arrest in December 1990 . |
| 21 | On June 11 Zaki had been quoted as saying that Pakistan " feels vulnerable " to India 's long-range missiles . |