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

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1 Since the first royal radio message in 1932 , which was followed by the first TV broadcast on Christmas Day 1957 , the BBC has been in charge of security .
2 Starting next year the Official Custodian for Charities , who has been in charge of investments on behalf of 40,000 charities , will be giving back the investments to the individual charities .
3 Since then he has been in charge at Plymouth , Crystal Palace , Manchester City and Middlesbrough as well as managing abroad .
4 RYEDALE-YORK , rugby league 's Division Three leaders , yesterday sacked coach Derek Foster , who has been in charge since May , 1991 .
5 Of the 35 goals England have scored in the 26 matches Taylor has been in charge , just three have come from outside the penalty area .
6 Commander Churchill-Coleman has been in charge of the elite anti-terrorist branch longer than any other officer .
7 Since 1988 she has been in charge of organising the BDA 's centenary celebrations a task , which she has combined with bringing up her hearing daughter Nicola .
8 He has been in charge of professional advice on listed buildings since 1975 and was made Chief Inspector in 1988 .
9 In all matches , competitive and friendly , Charlton has been in charge 65 times ( 33 away , 32 in Dublin ) and has suffered defeat just nine times .
10 He replaces Alan Mills , who has been in charge at Drumaness for the past two years .
11 In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment .
12 If my deductions are correct , Fishbane has been in charge of buying only for about three years , because for the previous three the magazines being ordered were very rum indeed .
13 Mills , also the Widnes chairman , has been in charge of Wales since their reintroduction two years ago since when they have beaten France twice and Papua New Guinea .
14 He has been in charge of a three-part training course to introduce the game to school teachers and group leaders in the Middlesbrough area .
15 It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge .
16 Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea .
17 If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's
18 Cardiff might have been in charge , but you 're the one who provided the evidence . ’
19 Alternatively , you must have been in charge of a yacht for at least a week , perhaps on Villa-Flotilla .
20 You should previously have been in charge of a small cruiser for at least two weeks ( perhaps on a two week flotilla ) , and you should be confident reefing your mainsail or paddling your rubber dinghy in strong winds .
21 The beneficiarii might have been in charge of its annual assessment according to the quantity of the harvest , its collection and safe storage at some central point and its distribution to wherever it was needed .
22 The officers , whether beneficiarii , stratores or regionarii , might have been in charge of , and therefore accommodated in , the mansio , if one existed , though it has been argued that a beneficiarius , usually only a legionary , was too junior in status to have charge of such an important building .
23 ‘ Normally this other young man-Freely , was that the name ? — would have been in charge ? ’
24 Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage .
25 With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 .
26 Keith James and Jim McCreedy , who had been in charge for an increasingly fraught 20 months , had their resignations accepted this week .
27 Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division .
28 If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail .
29 Mr Reuss , who had been in charge of the North American car operations for five years , will be replaced by vice-chairman John Smith , who transformed GM 's ailing European operations in the 1980s .
30 A high-ranking Polish military intelligence officer , Colonel Michael Goleniewski , who had been in charge of Polish military intelligence in East Berlin , defected to the CIA in West Berlin .
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