Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 2 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 3 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 4 | One example of an hypothesis which has been given serious attention in recent years is the possible link between electromagnetic fields generated by high-voltage power lines or supply cables and ill health . |
| 5 | Another facet of the problem of rural services , which has been given considerable publicity in England , is the demise of the village retail store due to economies of scale and retailing and stringent food hygiene regulations . |
| 6 | By their nature such inquiries do not fit one of the requisites of classical adjudication , which has been termed strong responsiveness . |
| 7 | In the delicate balance between trust and accountability , an Area Secretary should be confident that her/his report will always be acknowledged on the basis of its having been given serious attention . |
| 8 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 9 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 10 | A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 . |
| 11 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 12 | Appointments announced by the York Diocese include the Rev Catherine Durnford , assistant curate at Whitby , who has been appointed assistant curate at Redcar ; the Rev Christopher Morgan becomes vicar of St Hilda 's , York , and the Rev Simon Wright has been re-appointed Rural Dean of Middlesbrough for five years . |
| 13 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 14 | He takes over from PHILIP SWANN who has been made assistant director ( adult services ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't explain how I feel in words and I do n't know what the future holds , ’ said Tamas , who has been granted political asylum and has applied for Hungarian citizenship . |
| 16 | Congratulations goes to Paddy Summers of the Sixmilewater league who has been elected assistant team manager to Russell Morrow , Ballymena . |
| 17 | of income in the north of Ireland — and that the hill livestock farmer depends very much on such payments at this time of year , will he ensure that these payments and other headage payments are made in accordance with the rules and regulations and thus assist the distraught financial circumstances especially of the small farmer who has been paid scant regard in the House this afternoon ? |
| 18 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 19 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 20 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 21 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 22 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 23 | On Feb. 16 the Serbian LC further demanded that what it termed " illegal immigrants " from Albania should be repatriated , and that those who had been granted Yugoslavian citizenship should be stripped of their rights if they had acted against the constitutional order . |
| 24 | On Oct. 22 Mohammad Ali Nazaran , the Iranian representative on the tripartite Iranian-Iraqi-ICRC commission charged with supervising the exchange of prisoners , demanded that Iraq " release immediately " Mohammad Javad Tondguyan , who had been appointed Iranian Oil Minister in September 1980 [ see p. 30630 ] and captured by an Iraqi military patrol shortly after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 31008 ] . |
| 25 | Hammadi , a Shia , who had been appointed Prime Minister in March [ see p. 38083 ] , was reported to have favoured greater political liberalization and a closer adherence to UN resolutions to end Iraq 's international isolation . |
| 26 | The resignation on July 29 of Vincenzo Scotti ( DC ) , who had been appointed Foreign Minister four weeks earlier , prompted widespread criticism . |
| 27 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |
| 28 | In March 1991 Mohammed Shafi Qureshi was appointed as the new state Governor , replacing B. Satya Narain Reddy , the Governor of Uttar Pradesh , who had been given temporary responsibility for Bihar in February following the dismissal of Governor Mohammad Yunus Saleem [ see pp. 38006 ; 38102 ] . |
| 29 | There was no evidence to suggest that anxious patients who had been given detailed information became more distressed afterwards ( fig 2 ; r=0.18 , p=0.23 ) . |
| 30 | It would , however , be preferable to have a bile duct free of stones , and Johnson et al recently reported that in such patients initially treated with an endoprosthesis , eight of 10 who had been given ursodeoxycholic acid had cleared their stones within six months compared with only one of 10 not given this bile acid . |