Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ticket office , which has been branded an eyesore , was opened as a temporary measure over a year ago in preparation for the station 's £1m refurbishment . |
| 2 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 3 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 4 | A registered or occasional student who has been granted an intermission in his studies or leave of absence from his studies shall not be required to enrol for the period of intermission or leave . |
| 5 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 6 | 17 You 've been given an award for your services to natural history . |
| 7 | You 've been given an invitation to the most magnificent show in the world . |
| 8 | You 've been given an invitation to fall in love . |
| 9 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 10 | ‘ Mama never spoke of her family , insisting that she had been born an orphan , ’ Joan said , still unable to fully comprehend that she was not whom she had thought she was . |
| 11 | Erm we 've been given an allocation er in this er in these alterations of twenty five hectares . |
| 12 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 13 | The Foreign Ministry on Aug. 21 announced that there had been discovered an attempt by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mohamed Taki to destabilize the government , and that one French mercenary and two Comorans had been arrested . |
| 14 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 15 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 16 | If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground . |
| 17 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 18 | Although it has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , several things blot the landscape . |
| 19 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 20 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 21 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 22 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 23 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 24 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 25 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 26 | Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap . |