Example sentences of "[pers pn] has be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV .
4 But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 He has been offered a full-time contract for July and has accepted . ’
10 Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week .
11 He has been promised an initial six-match run .
12 Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job .
13 Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous .
14 So valuable has the dating of tephra become that it has been given a specific name — tephrochronology .
15 It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players .
16 It has never been seen again , though it has been given an official variable star designation : T Boo¨tis .
17 However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota .
18 Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car .
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