Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI has been branded a Scrooge after cancelling Christmas parties for pensioners . |
| 2 | Bootle-born Shirli-Ann Siddall has been given a wildcard entry . |
| 3 | So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk . |
| 4 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
| 5 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
| 6 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
| 7 | Gazza has been given an insight into Maradona 's mad , mad world in Naples by Lazio team-mate Luigi Corimo , who was his understudy at Napoli . |
| 8 | However , Mrs Falconer has been offered an alternative — the reduced post of lecturer , the job held by Mrs Diack , who would have to make way for her sister . |
| 9 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 10 | For some time Rex has been conducting a correspondence with one of the brewers entirely in verse . |
| 11 | What Thorfinn did was earn a breathing-space , and the right to lodge some sort of defence in the area . |
| 12 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 13 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 14 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
| 15 | A RESEARCH unit at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham has been given a £130,000 boost by a funding body . |
| 16 | Donald Gould has been digesting a report from the OHE |
| 17 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
| 18 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 19 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 20 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 21 | British Telecom has been demonstrating a video phone with BT says will sell for £800 a pair . |
| 22 | * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees |
| 23 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
| 24 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 25 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 26 | The chairman , wearing a fawn sports jacket , said he apologised if he had ‘ caused any offence ’ , but said he was annoyed because Mr Loveluck-Edwards had been reading a novel in court . |
| 27 | Ireland have been adopting a New Zealand type of pressure game , ushered in with the help of former All Black skipper Andy Lesie , and further enhanced by his close ally Willie Anderson . |
| 28 | OLYMPIAKOS Piraeus and Atletico Madrid of Spain have been fined a total of almost £100,000 for serious crowd and player trouble during their European Cup Winners ' Cup clash on March 4 . |
| 29 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
| 30 | The University of Reading has been given an award to investigate the relationship between shop property values and rates . |