Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 2 | The one enthroned by a building has been thought Priam in Troy , and if so there are two subjects : Gigantomachy ( Battle of Gods and Giants ) and Iliupersis ( Sack of Troy ) . |
| 3 | At Sandown , Martin Pipe 's Valfinet has been installed evens favourite for the William Hill Handicap Hurdle , while Uncle Ernie , a last fence faller at Huntingdon a week ago , will bid for compensation in the Mitsubishi Shogun Tingle Creek Trophy . |
| 4 | STEPHEN Brooks has been appointed brand manager for Johnson Brothers from 1 January . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her daughter , Lucy Packer ( 1970 ) besides mothering three sons has been appointed Head of Personnel at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 7 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 8 | Philippe Picard has been appointed director of the new division . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Eric Newman has been appointed president of the US medical and scientific publisher Appleton & Lange . |
| 11 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 12 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 13 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 14 | The computer has been taught fishing tricks : it jiggles the line to make the squid think the bait is alive . |
| 15 | A tenant who was wrongfully evicted from his bedsit has been awarded damages of ( 1900 ) nineteen hundred pounds . |
| 16 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily : |
| 21 | ARTHUR Dicken has been appointed chairman of the CBI 's Teesside area group . |
| 22 | POL Roger has been appointed UK agent for Pipers Brook Vineyard , Tasmania . |
| 23 | The paradigm of religion has been turned upside down . |
| 24 | Gordon Strachan OBE is simply unbelievable , and if HRH has been shown highlights of the game yet , I expect she 'll have popped the hereditary peerage in the post for him . |
| 25 | SINGER Sam Sorono , who appeared on the last series of Granada TV 's Stars in their Eyes competition impersonating Tom Jones and again last Saturday has been voted Vocalist of the Year by readers of the national club magazine Club Mirror . |
| 26 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 27 | CLWYD beef and sheep farmer Michael Pickering has been appointed chairman of the panel which helps advise Secretary of State for Wales David Hunt on agricultural issues in the Principality . |
| 28 | AC MILAN 'S Marco Van Basten has been voted player of the year by World Soccer magazine ahead of Dutch team-mate Dennis Bergkamp and Manchester United keeper Peter Schmeichel . |
| 29 | The National Bee Unit said the varroa parasite has been found north of Dartmoor . |
| 30 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |