Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 2 | MICHAEL Cannon has been appointed managing director of Sulzer ( UK ) , of Farnborough . |
| 3 | Stephen March has been made divisional finance officer for West Sussex County Council . |
| 4 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 5 | The site of the old Baptist Tabernacle in Swindon has been cleared ready for redevelopment . |
| 6 | The Rev C. A. Johns wrote six years earlier , in 1862 , ‘ Of late years , so unusual has the occurrence become of Bitterns breeding in this country , that the discovery of an egg in Norfolk has been thought worthy of being recorded in the transactions of the Linnean Society … |
| 7 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 8 | ‘ … and it is with regret we must inform you that your husband Gerald Patrick McKeown has been reported missing , believed lost at sea as a result of enemy action on the night of 23rd/24th April , 1941 … ’ |
| 9 | DAVE BASSETT has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month . |
| 10 | Dave Bassett has been found innocent of allegations of obscene behaviour at Chelsea last month . |
| 11 | Beverley Hilton , editorial director of Eaglemoss Publications , retires on 1st April , but remains on the board ; Isabel Moore , formerly at Octopus , joins the company on 1st April as editorial director ; Jasmine Taylor has been appointed creative director ; and Eluned James continues as managing editor . |
| 12 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 13 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 14 | President Gorbachev has been granted extensive new powers as the Soviet Union prepares to switch to a market economy . |
| 15 | President Gorbachev has been granted extensive new powers to help the Soviet Union move towards a market economy , but deputies in the Soviet parliament have again postponed a decision about how to introduce the new system . |
| 16 | PETER Scantlebury of London Towers has been named English basketball player of the year for 1992 . |
| 17 | Ali Shoukeir has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of |
| 18 | ‘ The Dutch Texel has been bred pure for so long that its characteristics of extra hindquarter muscling , minimum bone and minimum fat are stamped firmly on to its crossbred progeny , ’ says Mr Slade . |
| 19 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 20 | Bernard Houssin has been appointed general manager of the Oak Hotel Group from the Arcade Hotel in Portsmouth , Hampshire . |
| 21 | Appointments announced by the York Diocese include the Rev Catherine Durnford , assistant curate at Whitby , who has been appointed assistant curate at Redcar ; the Rev Christopher Morgan becomes vicar of St Hilda 's , York , and the Rev Simon Wright has been re-appointed Rural Dean of Middlesbrough for five years . |
| 22 | Frederick Stebbing FCA of 30 Aldridge Rise , New Malden , Surrey having been found guilty of misconduct within the meaning of Bye-Law 76(a) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in the Crown Court on 24 July 1991 pleaded guilty to an offence of dealing in securities of a company as a prohibited person contrary to Section 1(2) of the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 was censured and ordered to pay £350 by way of costs . |
| 23 | Brian Groom FCA of The Shrubbery , Burghfield Bridge , Reading , Berks having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iii ) in that he at Reading between 24 January 1992 and 30 July 1992 failed to satisfy a judgment of the County Court was reprimanded , fined £500 to be paid by 20 January 1993 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 24 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 25 | Item — Lady Eleanor had been seen alive just before the service began by Dame Martha and Dame Elizabeth . |
| 26 | By the end of 1989 Nicaragua had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of US$150 million accumulated on loans of $160 million from that body . |
| 27 | The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . " |
| 28 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 29 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 30 | The French President , François Mitterrand , confirmed on Oct. 15 that Aoun had been granted political asylum as a " question of honour " and that he would be allowed to remain in the embassy indefinitely . |