Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [vb pp] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEREMY Irons ' latest movie Damage has been given an adults-only rating by American censors . |
| 2 | Professor Roger Falconer has been appointed an Overseas External Assessor and Advisor to the Hong Kong Research Grants Council . |
| 3 | Since then Spool Setting has been given an expanded nightshift , resulting in a smoother operation and a reliable twenty four hour despatch service to customers . |
| 4 | The campaign has been given an extra edge as it is one of the many school ‘ constituencies ’ throughout Britain to be featured on the BBC 's Newsround programme . |
| 5 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 6 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 7 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 8 | Micro Focus has been had an object-oriented research programme under way since 1989 to explore what it really means to have re-usable code in practice . |
| 9 | Moving up the country to Bristol , the Lady Byron Park development in Exmouth has been given an all-American flavour with the apartments and homes named after US cities . |
| 10 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 11 | A man who strangled his so-called nagging wife has been given an eighteen month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey . |
| 12 | THE Japanese tycoon who dreamt up the Sony Walkman has been awarded an honorary knighthood . |
| 13 | He was frequently referred to on radio and television , and in the papers , as the first person to have been given an artificial heart . |
| 14 | Rachel Young has been awarded an Honorary M.A. ‘ for services to history ’ by the University of East Anglia . |
| 15 | The reception area has been given an open plan look , and located to the side of the banking are several desks which enable staff to have closer contact with their customers . |
| 16 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 17 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 18 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 19 | THE administrators of Maxwell Communication Corporation have been granted an extra two months by the American courts to prepare a reconstruction plan for the company . |
| 20 | US President-elect Bill Clinton has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from University College , Oxford , where he studied in 1968 and '69 . |
| 21 | That invention had been awarded an English patent but B did not mention that fact to the plaintiffs , and after he left he acquired it . |
| 22 | Toys R Us have been offered an alternative site at Linwood and all the help we can give them . ’ |
| 23 | Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Pickering of the Department of Anatomy has been elected an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences . |
| 24 | EFFORTS to revitalise a hard-hit housing estate in Darlington have been given an unexpected financial boost . |
| 25 | Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University . |
| 26 | It soon failed , but the novel idea has been considered an important precursor of the later work of Sir Ebenezer Howard [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 28 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 29 | Each player has been set an individual achievement target , and has the security of a year-long period in which to prove himself . |
| 30 | Handpainted with leaves and trailing ribbons , this delightful parchment table has been given an antique crackle glaze finish , £245 ; matching balloon-back chair , £115 ; Rubena Grigg , Orchard wallpaper in Buttermilk colourway , £13.50 per roll . |