Example sentences of "have been [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 2 | John Dellow , deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , has been elected the new president of the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 3 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 4 | Unfortunately yet again the servicer has been denied the adequate resources available to implement decent care . |
| 5 | Expenses cashier Fiona Smith has been collecting the small change when people have returned from overseas business trips and holidays over the last six months . |
| 6 | YOSHIKO TAKEDA , 25-year-old wife of a British businessman , has been appointed the first full-time Japanese tour guide at Dove Cottage , Grasmere , the Lake District home of William Wordsworth , writes Gerald Bartlett . |
| 7 | Well known broadcaster , author and journalist Jonathan Dimbleby has been appointed the new President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 8 | The Reverend Dr Tom Tuma , a writer and educator , has been appointed the new provincial secretary of the Anglican Church of Uganda . |
| 9 | Fr Vince Ohlinger SVD has been appointed the new General Manager of Word Publishing Company in Papua New Guinea . |
| 10 | George Robertson , the MP for Hamilton , has been appointed the new Shadow Scottish Secretary . |
| 11 | Rose Holmes , 42 , of Bearpark , Durham , has been appointed the new manager at the AA shop on Corporation Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | The deputy head of Morecambe high School , Miss Rachel Totton has been appointed the new head of Whitby School . |
| 13 | UNILEVER senior manager Bill Duncan has been appointed the new chairman of the Wirral NHS Hospital Trust , which manages Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals . |
| 14 | Andrew has been appointed the temporary administrator . |
| 15 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 16 | Joe has been learning the great man 's speeches and studying his mannerisms , but does he really look likely Winston at all ? |
| 17 | When this has been done the common problems of analysis can be dealt with . |
| 18 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 19 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 20 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 21 | The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings . |
| 22 | A dermatology hospital which has been called the best in the country has opened in Oxford . |
| 23 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 24 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 25 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
| 26 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 27 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 28 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 29 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 30 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |