Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 32 | More recently we have been joined by East Sussex County Council , The Borough of Hove , The British Council and now we welcome also Lewes District Council . |
| 33 | Portadown coach welcomes back former Irish international winger Susie Kinley , only to find that Adele Sloan takes her place on maternity leave , whereas Pegasus coach Eilish Macken has a strong midfield line-up to call upon now that international panellists Claire Samways , Jeanette Turner and Claire McMahon have been joined by Kim Mills . |
| 34 | The first , Teesside Development Corporation , has been joined by Norwich Union Insurance which will create 40 jobs , and two other companies . |
| 35 | Dr Jenkins , from Leicester University , has been working on two compounds found in English yew and has recently been joined by Dr Nick Lawrence of Manchester University . |
| 36 | They had been joined by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Grierson . |
| 37 | I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss . |
| 38 | To help her in her task , she has been joined by Corinne Hollingworth , a former producer of EastEnders . |
| 39 | Sir , Your report on 26th March about the appointment of new sales directors at Random House and Orion stated that Random House had announced ‘ the appointment of Mike Broderick to the new position of group UK sales director … ( and ) By a happy symmetry , Orion has now been joined by Dallas Manderson , who has left his post as group trade sales director at Random House ’ . |
| 40 | The soloist , Emma Johnson , had been joined by Sir Charles Groves and the RPO ; and it was evident from several members of the orchestra that the sessions had proved enjoyable for all concerned . |
| 41 | He has been joined by Harwich MP Iain Sproat and Lord Braybrooke , the Lord Lieutenant of Essex . |
| 42 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 43 | The shipment had originally been scheduled for May — the first of some 10,000 tonnes of rice which the South had agreed to barter during 1991 — but had been delayed by US objections . |
| 44 | A considerable investment has been made in the redevelopment of the Piper field , which achieved first oil in February 1993 , having been delayed by construction schedule slippages and bad weather at the end of 1992 . |
| 45 | he had been delayed by Joseph Hyde who had wanted to discuss the night 's events again and again , working out possible and probable courses of action ; from experience , Patrick knew the stout bookseller would do nothing . |
| 46 | The budget debate had been delayed by opposition demands for an investigation into the government 's role in the various scandals . |
| 47 | A controversial plan for a bypass around Aylesbury has been delayed by county councillors . |
| 48 | Its a stranger 's car … but all three children happily get into it … and they 're not the first many of the 750 youngsters … who 've attended Aylesbury Police 's emergency training session … have been tricked by Police officers posing as strangers … |
| 49 | ( The conference had been lobbied by gypsy delegations for their recognition as an ethnic minority . ) |
| 50 | To the west of York a 3,000 house development has been mooted for Acaster Malbis , a disused airfield . |
| 51 | A CABINET seat has long been mooted for Virginia Bottomley , who is unique in managing to elicit praise and admiration even from the die-hard male chauvinists in her party . |
| 52 | This had first been mooted by Konrad Adenauer in 1949 . |
| 53 | Such a plan had allegedly been mooted by Robert Gates , director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , who visited Jordan in late June . |
| 54 | This is a major problem in the Sahel zone where cash cropping has been mooted by Earth Report ( 1988 ) as one of the major causes of environmental degradation , and while the case presented may be oversimplified it is worth reiterating since cash cropping in general is not ( if past performance is taken as a measure ) the answer to Africa 's development problems . |
| 55 | It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe . |
| 56 | By the time Jamal Hamadan , accompanied by Sami Jafaar , arrived in Cyprus to meet his old friend at the Filanta hotel , Sergeant Mikalis had been banished to police school in Germany , and his successors in the room down the hall from the ‘ hot ’ suite had been drilled by Coleman to within an inch of their lives . |
| 57 | Vienna at this time has been immortalised in Carol Reed 's brilliant 1949 film The Third Man based on Graham Greene 's novel in which a drug trafficker , played by Orson Welles , manages to elude the police by crossing from one zone of the city to another via the network of underground sewers . |
| 58 | The spinners of Dent have been immortalised by Adam Sedgwick . |
| 59 | Do n't you think it would of been absolutely Super to have been Immortalised by Robert Burns ? |
| 60 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |