Example sentences of "have been [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Louisville , USA : , technical services representative for Porter International , has been elected treasurer of the Ohio Chapter of the Steel Structures Painting Council ( SSPC ) .
2 Don Macro , of Brompton Walk , Darlington , has been elected chairman of the town 's Talking Newspaper for the Blind .
3 STUART Renton , MBE , DA , ARSA , FRIBA , FRIAS , has been elected chairman of the board of governors of Edinburgh College of Art , He succeeds Martin Huggins , chairman since January 1991 .
4 THE Rev James Derrick Tyney has been elected Canon of Belfast Cathedral in succession to Canon Norman Woodrow .
5 Rev Dick Avi has been elected Chairperson of WACC 's Pacific Regional Association .
6 FORMER Clwyd county councillor Barbara Roberts has been elected chairwoman of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales 's Flint Branch , which covers Alyn and Deeside , Delyn and Rhuddlan .
7 But first , Boris Yeltsin the man sacked by President Gorbachov as Moscow Communist Party Chief , has been elected leader of the Russian Federation ; Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful Republic .
8 Professor J.M. Bately ( Janet Summers ) has been elected Fellow of the British Academy .
9 Dr Helen Ross , Reader in Psychology University of Stirling , has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
10 Alain Gourd , Canada 's Deputy Minister of Communications , has been elected President of the International Institute of Communications , a UK-based organisation which undertakes communication research and policy analysis …
11 And finally , an animal sanctuary threatened with closure because of a cash shortage has been saved thanks to Central South viewers .
12 The total area of the site which has been developed runs to about 60,000 sq ft .
13 The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany .
14 For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats .
15 The commission has been collecting evidence about the torture and ‘ disappearance ’ of the military regime 's political opponents , from victims and their families and from the armed forces .
16 The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years .
17 The General Household Survey has been collecting data on out-patient use , though not publishing them .
18 She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society .
19 The Rev Canon William Jones , of Llanystumdwy , has been appointed treasurer of Bangor Cathedral .
20 Seru Verebalavu has been appointed Coordinator of WACC 's Pacific Regional Association .
21 JOHN Anderson , forced to retire from a full-time playing career because of an ankle injury , has been appointed player-manager of Berwick Rangers .
22 In addition to Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih one may mention the reference in an imperial decree sent from Murad I to Haci Evrenos Bey — unfortunately the document is of questionable authenticity-to one Elvan Fakih " who has been appointed seyhulislam for Rumeli generally " , to whom Evrenos Bey is adjured to show particular respect .
23 David Clarke , general manager of the Caledonian Hotel , Edinburgh , has been appointed chairman of the Edinburgh Principal Hoteliers Association .
24 JOHN Ockenden , chairman of Data Logic , has been appointed chairman of the National Computing Centre , succeeding Dr John Ashworth of the London School of Economics who has held the post since June 1983 .
25 Prof W. R. Jackson has been appointed chairman of the chemistry department at Monash University , Australia .
26 Coopers & Lybrand 's senior technical partner Matthew Patient has been appointed chairman of the International Auditing Practices Committee .
27 Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie , administrator of the Bibliothèque Nationale , has been appointed chairman of an association set up to consider the administrative problems and to determine the aims and contents of the long awaited library , and who the users will be .
28 Recently he has been appointed Chairman of Lasalle in Aberdeen , and serves on the Advisory Board of the Strathclyde Business School .
29 He is a member of the new SCOTVEC Board , and has been appointed Chairman of the new Qualifications and Marketing Committee , and is presently a member of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum .
30 Lord Moore , a former cabinet minister , has been appointed chairman of the new Energy Saving Trust--founded to identify energy-efficiency projects , mainly in the domestic sphere , for British Gas and regional electricity-generating companies to invest in .
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