Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 2 | Midlands , West & Wales has been awarded a £1.4 million contract by the Ministry of Education to build a two-storey extension to the Pates Grammar School in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 4 | Among his opponents was Pinza , ridden by Gordon Richards , the most successful and ( more to the point ) most loved jockey in British Turf history , yet still trying to win the Derby after twenty-seven unavailing attempts : to add further spice to the occasion , the announcement had just been made that Richards had been awarded a knighthood , the first jockey to be so honoured . |
| 5 | One may well blame politicians for much Middle East misery , as Mr. Cleaver maintains , but without forgetting that Palestine has been partitioned a number of times . |
| 6 | At the end of October , we learned that WGEC had been awarded a major new contract with BP . |
| 7 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 8 | The mother — who believes she passed on her 50-a-day habit to the girl while she was pregnant — revealed that Cherie had been diagnosed a nicotine addict by a doctor . |
| 9 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 10 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |
| 11 | And Mark has been dubbed a ‘ disgusting ’ individual by ex-Liberal leader David Steel . |