Example sentences of "[Wh pn] has [been] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
2 | 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 ) . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |