Example sentences of "[pron] has been [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employment relations as a fundamental relation of organizations upon which has been constructed a whole discourse of the determinism of size as a contingency variable increasingly gave way to more complex and fragmentary relational forms , such as subcontracting and networking . |
| 2 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 3 | Groups will get a chance to perform in front of the rest of the festival participants in an evening programme which has been given an extra fillip with the inclusion of professionals of the stature of Siobhan Davies Dance Company as well as Dundee Rep Dance Company . |
| 4 | The Audit Commission , which has been given an extended brief to audit all health service facilities under WFP , pursues one-off enquiries usually with a value-for-money focus . |
| 5 | HSE will doubtless take speedy action to secure in-built improvements to new tackle but what of the aging and battered equipment which has been given an extended life because of the current recession ? |
| 6 | Or put another way , the economic growth objectives are planned so as to be practicable without recourse to that part of oil and gas production which has been designated a foreign currency earner . |
| 7 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 8 | The crown consists of two circlet crowns welded together and into which has been set a cloth-covered headpiece . |
| 9 | Harden 's type-series ( 1956b , pp. 139–43 ) divided the total assemblage into a number of distinct categories , beakers with stems or claws , bell , bag or cone-shaped , with the related horns , pouch bottles , squat jars , bottles , palm cups and bowls , to which has been added a bucket-shaped vessel from the cemetery of Westgarth Gardens , Bury St Edmunds ( Suffolk ) ; slight variations have been made to the original typology ( Harden 1978 , pp. 2–6 ) . |
| 10 | This does not normally involve dismantling the disk drive , you just insert in the drive a special disk to which has been added a small amount of a cleaning fluid . |
| 11 | Throughout this chapter the emphasis has been directed towards the determinants and consequences of bargaining structure since this is a concept which has been accorded a considerable role in explaining a number of important collective bargaining phenomena both within and between national industrial relations systems . |
| 12 | He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant . |
| 13 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 14 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 15 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 16 | The gesture was made by Bill Tennant , head of VVL , to Jones , who has been given an extra week by officials at Lancaster Gate to decide whether to appeal against his punishment . |
| 17 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 18 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |
| 19 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 20 | It gives her a role as a pseudo-ambassador to the region and she has been granted a special travel visa allowing access to the area without the normal restrictions on foreigners . |
| 21 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 22 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 23 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 24 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
| 25 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 26 | I could have told him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Academy Club drinking school run by Oofy Prosser and Stephen Hargrave , in recognition of his services to literature . |
| 27 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 28 | He has been offered a full-time contract for July and has accepted . ’ |
| 29 | Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week . |
| 30 | He has been promised an initial six-match run . |