Example sentences of "has [adv] been [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray Holmes , the BDA 's present Vice-Chairman took his place , and has since been elected Vice-President of an the World Federation . |
| 2 | He has just been appointed head of the private office of Jean Glavany , France 's Secretary of State for Technical Education . |
| 3 | But as one door closes , another opens — and the former Larne defender has just been appointed manager of Smithwick 's Amateur League Premier side Drumaness Mills . |
| 4 | In fact , Coetzee has just been granted immunity to return to South Africa for three weeks : he will give evidence in support of the Mxenge family 's case against the Minister of Law and Order , which begins on April 15 . |
| 5 | The England international 's wonder strike against Pescara earlier this month has just been voted goal of the season so far by top TV station RAI and earned him £9,000 , which he has donated to a charity helping Brazilian schoolchildren . |
| 6 | Study of the religious story shows that it has always been organised religion which has eventually retreated before the inexorable advance of science , and religious leaders should acknowledge that this retreat provides the living proof of the falsity of their position . |
| 7 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 8 | Pontormo is also known as Jacopo de Carucci and the picture has also been called Portrait of a Halberdier which somehow sounds less expensive . |
| 9 | They are winger Alex Partington and stand-off John Gunning , who has also been named player of the month . |
| 10 | Robert Allen continues to head the company and has also been made director of the newly formed Mensa Psychometrics . |
| 11 | The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area . |
| 12 | There has also been continued success in the development of compounds for the treatment of specific viral diseases . |
| 13 | A member of the primary health care team has now been designated liaison officer and all messages are passed to her . |
| 14 | Mr Greenwald has now been appointed chairman of Tatra and Mr Shelby and Mr Rutherford have joined him on the board . |
| 15 | In addition to continuing to maintain the library , she has now been appointed book review editor of Media Development , and is also undertaking various other assignments . |
| 16 | That view — first expressed six years ago — has now been given effect , and it is universally accepted that students are denied housing benefit and , in the majority of cases , housing support . |
| 17 | An early major event in my life in the Boys ' School was the celebration of Empire Day on May 24th , which has now been renamed Commonwealth Day . |
| 18 | John McCarthy has now been held hostage in Beirut for four years . |
| 19 | Although Rhys has now been offered treatment in Bristol , subject to ethical approval and a suitable donor being forthcoming , ‘ valuable , perhaps literally vital time has been lost ’ . |
| 20 | have held lengthy dialogue with the commission , no formal clearance what so ever has even been given commission suggested and encouraged to notify , but they did not , they had the opportunity to do so , they declined it , one might say is a market of risk takers , this is a risk that they took . |
| 21 | Geometrical isomerism is sometimes , or has sometimes been called cis trans-isomerism . |
| 22 | Thus for practical reasons it has sometimes been found expedient for projects initiated by Unidroit to reach fruition at a Diplomatic Conference held under the aegis of UNCITRAL . |
| 23 | N5520 , which has irrecoverably been christened Faith , was one of four Gladiators transferred from the Flight to 261 Squadron 's care at Luqa in September 1940 . |
| 24 | Child protection has therefore been given priority status , resulting in a plethora of legislation , directives , regulations and procedures , all adopted to protect the well-being of children . |
| 25 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 26 | Sydney Possuelo , a strong advocate of Indian rights who has recently been appointed head of Brazil 's Indian agency FUNAI , has put new impetus behind the massive initiative , ‘ Operation Free Jungle ’ , set up to rid the Yanomami land of gold miners . |
| 27 | Mike Tooby has recently been appointed Director of the New Tate Gallery , St Ives |
| 28 | John by the way has recently been elected President of our Energy and Utilities section . |
| 29 | With this in mind , FoE cites the Department of the Environment 's refusal to publish its report on technologies for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from power stations , which was completed a year ago , but has never been made public . |
| 30 | That document , completed last spring , has never been made public , but those who have had access to it assert that its main thrust was to give Scotland more rather than less autonomy . |