Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology .
2 Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association .
3 Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries .
4 There are so many works of art in the church that it has been declared a museum and is included as such on the official list of Milanese museums .
5 The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches .
6 One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland .
7 In stark terms , B has been denied a judgment by a tribunal which had agreed that certain issues should be heard by it and upon which it had heard argument .
8 Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata .
9 Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’
10 Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians .
11 John Akast , an assistant recorder from the same East Anglian chambers and based in Ipswich , has been appointed a Recorder to the South Eastern Circuit .
12 John Devaux , who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989 , has been appointed a circuit judge .
13 Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel .
14 Alan Armstrong , Senior Professional Technical Officer , has been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order ( MVO ) .
15 Mrs Ann M Vinton , the chairman and co-founder of The Reject Shop plc , has been appointed a member of the Covent Garden Market Authority .
16 JIM WELLS , who recently retired as training director of the North West Training Council has been appointed a director of their main board .
17 Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department .
18 A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back .
19 A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother .
20 A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband .
21 The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side .
22 Monetary targets have been extended with the narrow money supply target remaining at zero to 4 per cent while the broad money target range has been widened a point on either side to between 3 and 9 per cent .
23 In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department .
24 Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year .
25 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home .
26 The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind .
27 This project has been called a DIY design as it is open to certain modifications to suit particular whims .
28 The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime .
29 The map of the London Underground , which can be seen inside every train , on all stations , on the back of the London A-Z guide , on tea-cloths on sale at the London Transport Museum , on posters , in diaries and in sundry other places , has been called a model of its kind , a work of art .
30 Bletchley Park has been called a menagerie , and in the variety and eccentricity of its inhabitants , so it was .
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