Example sentences of "and [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a member of the new SCOTVEC Board , and has been appointed Chairman of the new Qualifications and Marketing Committee , and is presently a member of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum . |
| 2 | W Bradford Wiley has retired as chairman of the board of John Wiley & Sons Inc , though he is continuing as director of the company , and has been named chairman emeritus . |
| 3 | During that time BP has held a small interest in offshore block 8 and has been designated operator for onshore Cabinda Central block , where operations have been suspended for security reasons . |
| 4 | A subject which is and has been explored time and time again by authors is a vision of the future . |
| 5 | OK mate , guv , nah probs … yeh , awright , Ill come to the ticket office on the day like and get is sorted befor the match . |
| 6 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 7 | Reports from the country last night said that Shachar has spoken to Souness , and had been given permission to speak to the player . |
| 8 | This in turn distressed her , because although she had confessed before Padre Jorge to having told a lie of excuse and had been given penance and absolution for her sin , she was being obliged , in effect , to re-tell the same lie over and over again . |
| 9 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
| 10 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 11 | The crux of Sting 's accusation , however , was that he had suffered from ‘ inequality of bargaining power ’ which is to say , that he had not had proper legal advice when signing the deal , and had been taken advantage of by Virgin . |
| 12 | The ship had spent eight days searching for a port in which to dock , and had been refused permission to dock by the Aden port authorities on June 19 . |
| 13 | It turned out to be Terry Wade who had just heard that Trev Proby had been arrested on a number of theft and extortion charges , and had been refused bail . |
| 14 | None of these Athenian Doric temples had carved metopes , but fine big relief-slabs from the Acropolis ( fig. 40 ) seem architectural and have been thought part of a continuous frieze from the Peisistratid temple , like that of the fifth-century Parthenon . |
| 15 | The departments in question have been informed , in writing , to cease making payments in the above circumstances , and have been offered assistance from the Employee Relations Section during the consultation process . |
| 16 | Bolton 's letters ( The Letters of an English Merchant in Madeira , 1695–1714 ) are preserved and have been published part in book form and part in duplicated form . |
| 17 | In general , variables that are brought into the picture and controlled are called test factors . |