Example sentences of "[noun prp] has 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Donald Gould has been digesting a report from the OHE |
| 13 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
| 14 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 17 | British Telecom has been demonstrating a video phone with BT says will sell for £800 a pair . |
| 18 | * 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 |
| 19 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
| 20 | The University of Reading has been given an award to investigate the relationship between shop property values and rates . |
| 21 | Errol has been handed a three-game ban by the Ulster Branch 's Disciplinary Committee , after receiving three yellow cards during the season — but because his club have finished their programme , the ban wo n't take effect until the start of next season . |
| 22 | Analysts say Mr Patten has been fighting a war of nerves with China over the proposals , with neither wanting to go into any negotiations from a position of weakness . |
| 23 | Alcatel NV 's Alcatel Submarcom has been awarded a $25.8m contract to supply and install the fibre optic cable between Greece , Cyprus and Crete : the cable is scheduled to come into service in August 1994 . |
| 24 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 25 | Soccer coaching for girls in Bristol has been given a boost from British Gas South Western . |
| 26 | This focus on a particular strategy of growth-based survival on both sides of the Atlantic has been lent a credibility by the apparent successes of these high profile city projects . |
| 27 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 28 | JULIE Morris has been hailed a champion of young solicitors . |
| 29 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 30 | One may well blame politicians for much Middle East misery , as Mr. Cleaver maintains , but without forgetting that Palestine has been partitioned a number of times . |