Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just say then we seem to have agreed that that standard Andrew points been taken on board and dismissed out of hand |
| 2 | The candidate who brings his whole library to such an examination often fails : the facts that he needs are lost in a multitude of pages . |
| 3 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 4 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
| 5 | ‘ Therefore , Labour will be back in strength in the next election , and in the meantime , will be tiny of the performance of the council which has been elected on this occasion . ’ |
| 6 | No British government in the past forty years and more has been elected with even a bare majority of the votes cast . |
| 7 | CHARLIE BISSET , a member of the elite club of players who have turned out for three Scottish districts , has been elected as an Edinburgh representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee . |
| 8 | His eldest son , Bradford Wiley II , has been elected as his successor . |
| 9 | FORMER Mr Universe Terry Phillips , 53 , has been elected as a Conservative councillor in Knowsley , Merseyside . |
| 10 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 11 | At least one RAFALO has been elected to an Area Council . |
| 12 | If he wins , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 13 | If confirmed , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 14 | Dr Keith Suter of Australia has been elected to the Club of Rome , the prestigious international group of some 100 leading scientists , educators , philosophers and activists from 35 countries . |
| 15 | Emeritus Professor Richard Gregory , founder of the famous Bristol Exploratory , has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society . |
| 16 | Susan has been elected to the newly created Reserved Seat on the Executive Committee for Women , in Dublin . |
| 17 | Kate has been elected to the Executive Committee as one of the representatives of the Dublin District Committee . |
| 18 | Mrs M. Finnan , convenor of the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club , has been elected to the Village Association Committee . |
| 19 | She has been elected to an emeritus fellowship , and has our good wishes for her retirement . |
| 20 | She has been elected to the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society , London . |
| 21 | Jim Wayman , a member of Sedgefield Town Council and Sedgefield District Council , has been elected to the National Local Government Committee of the Conservative Party . |
| 22 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 23 | They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 24 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 25 | The new 160 bed hospital wing has been completed to the highest standards . |
| 26 | Training has been completed for the week , and the platoon which paraded for its Pass-Off today has now left the barracks for ten days ' leave prior to posting to various battalions in England , Ulster and around Europe . |
| 27 | In the Monadhliath project , fieldwork has been completed on the Glen Roy and Fortrose sheets , but continued in a further four sheet areas within the project . |
| 28 | Father , we are thankful for the work that has been completed on the church building and we rejoice at the skills and abilities that have made it possible . |
| 29 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |
| 30 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |