Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of |
| 2 | This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) . |
| 3 | This effect has been given a special significance in the writings of E.P . |
| 4 | The 26-year-old was a free agent having been given a free transfer by the Scottish Premier League club , and flew to Belfast on Friday to complete the deal . |
| 5 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 6 | Chris Dick of Linguaphone , which has a joint venture in Russia , reports that to the familiar problems of inflation , bureaucracy and foreign exchange has been added a new threat , piracy , now ‘ an enormous problem ’ . |
| 7 | But life is short enough , friends , and when the last copy of your favourite read has been snaffled a the newsagents you might be tempted to take Eric 's advice and head for the Cliffs Of Dover . |
| 8 | Now a lecturer at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Further Education has been awarded a european commission grant of £380,000 to see if volcanic activity is linked to sea level rise . |
| 9 | A teenage waitress has been left a £300,000 tip by a man who used to dine at her restaurant . |
| 10 | In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman . |
| 11 | An SPR may only be passed on a limited number of times ; once this limit has been reached a user must be forced , by a privileged user , to accept the SPR . |
| 12 | Once this limit has been reached a user must be forced , by a user with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege , to accept the SPR . |
| 13 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 14 | I think that all hon. Members have been sent a circular about the Bill by the Consumers Association . |
| 15 | Liverpool 's call for a British Cup has been given a frosty reception by the Scottish League president , Jack Steedman . |
| 16 | This project has been called a DIY design as it is open to certain modifications to suit particular whims . |
| 17 | It comes to this : some pits have been given a fighting chance — albeit in a contracting market — that they did not have last year . |
| 18 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 19 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 20 | Grids may be stained at any point after drying ( some grids have been stained a year or more after preparation ) . |
| 21 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |
| 22 | The Foreign Office has been given a seat at the Natural Environment Research Council , which funds the BAS . |
| 23 | When this stage has been reached a new work will pick them up and , usually by parodic means , make them perceptible again as devices . |
| 24 | As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted . |
| 25 | In the best Lowden tradition the entire guitar has been given a matt ‘ wire-wool ’ type finish and again , like all Lowdens , it has a very hefty-looking top — almost twice as thick as those of some other makers . |
| 26 | My tiny kitchen has been given a rustic look by hanging up a hop bine from a farm , and a string of onions ( 99p ) adds the finishing touch . |
| 27 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ adds our man with the scales of justice , ‘ the remaining frogs have been found a new home by the Tees . ’ |
| 28 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 29 | Even in large firms the reality of consensual decision-making has been dubbed a ceremonial ritual which merely persuades those most affected to feel they are participants . |
| 30 | Central South has been shown a strongly-worded letter sent by the Director of Social Services Ray Jones to Wiltshire 's Chief Constable Walter Girven . |