Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
| 2 | I think Klute is a superb film and I think he ( his father ) set an acting style in that film that has been mimicked a great deal since . |
| 3 | He 's right , he has the body of a whippet topped by the face of a bulldog that 's been given a severe kicking . |
| 4 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 5 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 6 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
| 7 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
| 8 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 9 | Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% . |
| 10 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 11 | The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh , I believe , had a recent £200,000 deficit , but has been awarded a larger grant . |