Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [art] job of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , the deputy secretary of state who has been given the job of co-ordinating America 's help for Eastern Europe , was told by Congress that the money the administration has in mind is too modest , but that its ideas about who should control the distribution of this money are immodest . |
| 2 | The EUROMET project , with a budget of 400,000 ecus ( $480,000 ) , has been given the job of building an EC meteorite mountain , and teams of hardy Euro-researchers are already out scavenging . |
| 3 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 4 | Jonadab questioned the waggoner 's lad , who had been given the job of keeping an eye on the horse . |
| 5 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 6 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 7 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 8 | I 'm a little bit surprised Stone has n't tried to get a bit closer to him although I think he 's been given the job of tracking Agnew who 's more of an attacking midfield player . |