Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 2 | STEPHEN Brooks has been appointed brand manager for Johnson Brothers from 1 January . |
| 3 | Pyramid Technology Corp has picked executive vice-president , Ed Scott , and former US sales vice-president , Robert Buhl to team up to develop and manage the company 's technology and strategic partnerships with vendors and integrators worldwide : the move is part of the firm 's four-month-old Open Data Center strategy ; Buhl has been named vice-president , strategic partners , reporting to Scott ; Pyramid 's chairman , Richard Lussier , will assume management of direct sales organisation and marketing oversight will fall to chief operating officer John Chen ; Mitchell Mandich , formerly Tandem Computers Inc 's western region sales director , is vice-president for the Americas responsible for sales in the western hemisphere and reporting to Richard Lussier . |
| 4 | Her daughter , Lucy Packer ( 1970 ) besides mothering three sons has been appointed Head of Personnel at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 5 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 6 | NIGEL LAWSON has been testing Ivory & Sime 's sense of humour . |
| 7 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 8 | Philippe Picard has been appointed director of the new division . |
| 9 | One of the country 's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom … testing school dinners . |
| 10 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 11 | In Europe , Dow Corning has a basic plant at Barry in South Wales to which ICI has been supplying methanol from Billingham since 1955 . |
| 12 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 13 | Eric Newman has been appointed president of the US medical and scientific publisher Appleton & Lange . |
| 14 | Siobhan has been losing weight for two years . |
| 15 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 16 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 17 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 18 | The computer has been taught fishing tricks : it jiggles the line to make the squid think the bait is alive . |
| 19 | The effect of the recession has been to reduce membership numbers to the level of 15 years ago , with a drop of 10,000 in 1992 , and an even greater proportionate fall in the number of examination candidates . |
| 20 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 21 | ENGLAND vice-captain Alec Stewart has been re-appointed captain of Surrey for the 1993 cricket season , ending suggestions that his job might be on the line after the TCCB found the county guilty of ball-tampering . |
| 22 | JOHN DUTTON , 47 , a graduate of Lancashire College of Agriculture who started his journalistic career as a Press officer with the Milk Marketing Board has been appointed Editor of ‘ British Farmer ’ , the official journal of the NFU . |
| 23 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 24 | It also points out in in in in the report , that this income has been to meet expenditure of thirty-two thousand pounds for the number of services , and the remainder of this , has been with additional insurance costs . |
| 25 | CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily : |
| 26 | ARTHUR Dicken has been appointed chairman of the CBI 's Teesside area group . |
| 27 | The paradigm of religion has been turned upside down . |
| 28 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 29 | But despite this and the fact that Brazil 's President Fernando Collor de Mello strongly supports the concept of the park opposition has been gathering force . |
| 30 | The intention has been to stimulate interest within the British Airways engineering community towards AI based solutions to engineering diagnostics problems . |