Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [been] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more bizarre , she has been reciting the works of a French philosopher throughout the operation while a black stripper dances in the background . |
| 2 | Since talking to me , she has been given a council house about fifteen miles from her family home , so at last she and Sean can get on with their lives together . |
| 3 | Sharron Davies ' bid to win the 400 metres individual medley title for a record sixth time will be watched with added interest now that she has been given the opportunity to swim the event in Barcelona next month . |
| 4 | She has been called the mourning Athena , since the bent head suggests grief . |
| 5 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 6 | After all , she has been asked the question several times over the past few days and will not say yes or no . |
| 7 | Following the burglary , she has been offered a place in a warden controlled block in Milton Keynes . |
| 8 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 9 | Sophia Tickell , Project Officer for the Andes , will return on April 19 from Bolivia , where she has been researching the impact of structural adjustment and other economic reforms encouraged by the World Bank and IMF . |
| 10 | A receptionist assures a potential guest that she has been allocated a room with a bathroom/w.c. and a balcony , when the room in fact allocated has none of these facilities ; s.14(1) also applies to this situation . |
| 11 | One of Kylie 's entourage , an aide and friend , explained : ‘ She has been studying the Atlas carefully for nearly two months , before she is ready to step on a soap box or address meetings . |
| 12 | WACC 's President , Rev Randy L Naylor , and General Secretary , Rev Carlos A Valle , sent a congratulatory telegram to Rigoberta Menchu Tum following the announcement on 16 October that she has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace . |
| 13 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 14 | He has been called the Bellamy of fossils for his ability to inspire his listeners . |
| 15 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |
| 16 | He has been watching a number of wingers in the last three months in a bid to add some firepower to his team , who have scored only 31 goals in 31 League games this season . |
| 17 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 18 | But he has been learning the ropes since February with Liverpool Playhouse workshop . |
| 19 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 20 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 21 | ( He has been addressing the problem rather more seriously since his wife succumbed after breakfast on her way down the gangplank . ) |
| 22 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 23 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 24 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 25 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 26 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 28 | This entitles him to refuse to hand them over until he has been repaid the money repayable to him . |
| 29 | But Reid , who is also considering giving brilliant youngster Gary Flitcroft his full debut , stressed : ‘ There is no problem with Steve even though he was substituted on Saturday — to be fair to him he has been fighting a toe injury . ’ |
| 30 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |