Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STEPHEN Brooks has been appointed brand manager for Johnson Brothers from 1 January . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 4 | Philippe Picard has been appointed director of the new division . |
| 5 | Eric Newman has been appointed president of the US medical and scientific publisher Appleton & Lange . |
| 6 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily : |
| 9 | ARTHUR Dicken has been appointed chairman of the CBI 's Teesside area group . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Robin Roberts has been appointed head of Hoskyns automation and control division , the Peterlee-based supplier of computer services . |
| 16 | Moreover , for Diuma to have been consecrated bishop of the Middle Angles and Mercians ( assuming that Bede has not made an error here ) , while Penda remained a heathen , must have been tantamount to treating Penda 's territory as a northern Anglian sphere of influence . |
| 17 | Corbett had been accompanied north by four messengers — chosen by the Chancellor from his own household . |
| 18 | Creed had been appointed chairman , yet there was no sense of celebration . |
| 19 | Negus Mikael , Lij Yasu 's father , being now a devout Christian , had condemned his son 's affiliation to Islam , but when he heard that Lij Yasu had been deposed family pride was outraged . |
| 20 | A READER asked what sort of heroes we are producing because Nigel Mansell and Nick Faldo had been pictured crying . |
| 21 | In the event they were never called upon to fight , reaching London only after Richard had been declared king . |
| 22 | In the event they were never called upon to fight , reaching London only after Richard had been declared king . |
| 23 | Hickel had been elected governor of the state in 1966 , as a Republican , but had left office in 1969 to become President Nixon 's first Interior Secretary . |
| 24 | Yameogo had been appointed Minister of Agriculture in July 1991 , but had resigned from the government in August [ see p. 38424 ] . |
| 25 | Adams Aviation Ltd at Biggin Hill have been appointed aviation distributors for the unit and can be contacted on |
| 26 | But we might have to revert to a one-day show in 1993. ’ — Ex-serviceman John Bennet has been appointed show chairman . |
| 27 | Turner has been offered employment by the company of Newport 's new coach , Gareth Evans , at a better salary than he currently enjoys . |
| 28 | Fr. , Michael Lynch has been appointed parish priest of St Joseph 's , Sherburn-in-Elmet , Fr. |
| 29 | ALLAN THOMSON has been appointed captain of the Scottish Boys team and will commence his duties in the quadrangular match with France , Italy and Sweden in Sardinia from 19-21 March . |
| 30 | Former Durham Police chief superintendent Bill Hills has been appointed emergency planning and securities officer with Northumbrian Water . |