Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Roger Falconer has been appointed an Overseas External Assessor and Advisor to the Hong Kong Research Grants Council . |
| 2 | Their friendship has been called a unique political ménage à trois . |
| 3 | A CONTROVERSIAL £270 computer game condemned as filthy , violent and evil has been given a mild 15 rating by British film censors . |
| 4 | Oak has been given a rich honey-toned stain for a kitchen with a cosy farmhouse feel . |
| 5 | MARK Hateley has been given a long-awaited second chance by England . |
| 6 | A CLEAN sweep at the Treasury , where Norman Lamont has been given a whole new team of ministers . |
| 7 | It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players . |
| 8 | The standard glow switch , as it is known , has been given a paradoxical new life by the recent arrival of energy-saving lamps . |
| 9 | The leader of Britain 's biggest union has been touring an old industrial battleground , to see how times have changed . |
| 10 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp has been granted a provisional double-A-3 rating for a shelf registration in Japan for the equivalent of $860m of debt , citing its market positions as Japan 's third largest integrated electric and electronics manufacturer , its sound financial condition , solid profit margins , and its expected strong cash flows arising from its well-diversified business lines , for the rating . |
| 11 | He has been promised an initial six-match run . |
| 12 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 13 | And the party has been devising an environmentally-friendly economic strategy . |
| 14 | The approach of the project has been to develop a computable disaggregated model of the economy which differs from , for example , the Treasury model of distinguishing as many as 39 industries and a comparable level of detail in other sectors of the economy . |
| 15 | He 'd been lent an old relegated rod with two mottled bamboo sections and a greenheart tip , a plastic centre-pin reel and a yellowed quill float . |
| 16 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 17 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |
| 18 | The best the Company could do was to send a 25-year old clerk and a force of 560 men off to Arcot , the capital of the Carnatic . |
| 19 | If you do n't receive one , do n't forget — all you have to do is buy a selected Black & Decker power tool from one of the above-mentioned stores , and you can send off for one , too . |
| 20 | All the leaker managed to do was to provoke a bogus political row . |
| 21 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 22 | Some fruit may have been given an artificial protective coating , so it 's best to wash them in warm soapy water and rinse them well before use . |
| 23 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 24 | Duncan 's small room , with a metal-framed cot , small table and two chairs , was one of the best in the hotel , having been repainted a sickly pale green only six months earlier . |
| 25 | See what I 'm saying is ask a nice open question an easy one at the beginning that you know most people are bound to understand you get a lot of participation and then start building it up . |
| 26 | So what I suggest you do is pay an additional three pounds which means that that is now covered for up to five thousand pounds regardless of it 's weight . |
| 27 | In fact this sweeping assertion seems rather too broad : what they did was impose a single procedural regime . |
| 28 | One of his ideas had been to take a small naval party with him who would attempt to scuttle a ship in the harbour mouth . |
| 29 | The initial aim in forming the DUP had been to create a united unionist party which would be as orthodox in its constitutional position as the Unionist Party of Craig and Brookeborough . |
| 30 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |