Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 2 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 3 | If any modules have been nominated for deletion at the end of a MINTEG run then the LIFESPAN manager and managers of any modules nominated are sent mail messages reporting on the nominations for deletion . |
| 4 | Louisville , USA : , technical services representative for Porter International , has been elected treasurer of the Ohio Chapter of the Steel Structures Painting Council ( SSPC ) . |
| 5 | Air Vice-Marshal D G Bailey has been elected Chairman to succeed Sir Charles . |
| 6 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 7 | Don Macro , of Brompton Walk , Darlington , has been elected chairman of the town 's Talking Newspaper for the Blind . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | THE Rev James Derrick Tyney has been elected Canon of Belfast Cathedral in succession to Canon Norman Woodrow . |
| 10 | Bishop Fortunatus Lukanima of Arusha , Tanzania , has been elected Bishop responsible for AMECEA ( the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa ) as well as Chairman of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference 's Social Communication Department . |
| 11 | Rev Dick Avi has been elected Chairperson of WACC 's Pacific Regional Association . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Professor J.M. Bately ( Janet Summers ) has been elected Fellow of the British Academy . |
| 15 | Dr Helen Ross , Reader in Psychology University of Stirling , has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | EVEN though Marion Plock has been declared brain dead , her unborn baby should be given the chance to live . |
| 18 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 19 | Japan has been hunting minke whales in the Antarctic for " research " purposes . |
| 20 | ( Even the Shadow Home Secretary has been denied access . ) |
| 21 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 22 | Since 1946 the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) has been promoting literacy ‘ both as a human right and as an instrument of liberation and development ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's quite amazing what turns up when one is least expecting it , ’ says Laurie Milner of the Imperial War Museum , who has been collecting material here . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The former Northern Ireland Secretary , Peter Brooke , has been appointed Heritage Secretary in place of David Mellor . |
| 27 | The former Northern Ireland Secretary , Peter Brooke , has been appointed Heritage Secretary in place of David Mellor . |
| 28 | The job of putting the Ryal International Pavillion , Llangollen on the Map has been taken on by Carolyn Brindle who has been appointed administrator . |
| 29 | The Rev Canon William Jones , of Llanystumdwy , has been appointed treasurer of Bangor Cathedral . |
| 30 | Seru Verebalavu has been appointed Coordinator of WACC 's Pacific Regional Association . |