Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fr Vince Ohlinger SVD has been appointed the new General Manager of Word Publishing Company in Papua New Guinea . |
| 2 | TEST cricket 's leading wicket-taker Sir Richard Hadlee has been accorded the unusual honour of having a pea named after him . |
| 3 | ACTRESS Jane Asher has been given the excellent news that the cakes she designs are to be sold nationwide by Sainsbury 's from next month . |
| 4 | Mitra had been considered the leading rival to Ramos for Aquino 's endorsement . |
| 5 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 6 | Yassir Arafat and Kemal Jumblatt had been summoned the previous winter to Damascus , where they told Assad that they were winning the war and wished to move all the way into the Christian heartland . |
| 7 | CHANGES to the law on damages in Scotland have been given the Royal Assent after a campaign to help the families of workers dying from asbestos-related diseases . |
| 8 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough whistler Jeff Winter has been given the good news that he has been promoted to the Football League middle for the start of next season a distinction held by only 90 referees in the whole of the country . |
| 10 | UNILEVER senior manager Bill Duncan has been appointed the new chairman of the Wirral NHS Hospital Trust , which manages Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals . |
| 11 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 12 | What can be done about discrimination against Travellers , given that travelling people in the Glen Road have been denied the fundamental right of official halting sites which should have been provided by Belfast City Council ? |
| 13 | Jonathan Phiri has been made the Acting Director of the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe , Zambia . |
| 14 | Well known broadcaster , author and journalist Jonathan Dimbleby has been appointed the new President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 15 | Keeling had been arrested the previous day and put on a flight to London . |
| 16 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 17 | Andrew has been appointed the temporary administrator . |
| 18 | Mohammed Sahnoun , a former Algerian permanent representative at the UN who in late April had been appointed the special representative in Somalia of the UN Secretary-General , arrived in Somalia on the weekend of May 9-10 . |
| 19 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 20 | The deputy head of Morecambe high School , Miss Rachel Totton has been appointed the new head of Whitby School . |
| 21 | OUTCAST Fergie has been delivered the final insult by Buckingham Palace . |
| 22 | From one of olympic fame to another who works in a typing ool. hazel cooke from Gloucester has been given the British empire medal — for her efforts in one of those very few recession beating jobs — she works in the insolvency section of the department of Trade and Industry . |
| 23 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |