Example sentences of "have be [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France . |
| 32 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 33 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |
| 34 | Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations . |
| 35 | Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car . |
| 36 | The base has been made a free port and special economic zone . |
| 37 | ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 38 | Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University . |
| 39 | Since 1978 the World Bank has been publishing an annual World Development Report with a growing number of ‘ world development indicators ’ tables ( eighteen tables in 1978 , twenty-seven in 1983 , thirty-three in 1988 ) , based for the most part on UN and internal World Bank data sources . |
| 40 | In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed . |
| 41 | Lady Kilmarnock , Amis 's first wife , roared with laughter ( she and Lord K share digs with him — an unusual menage ) , while Paul Fussell , an old American friend of Amis , disclosed : ‘ Kingsley has been sent a clean set of underwear as a birthday present . |
| 42 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
| 43 | Airbus has been given a three-year guarantee on that contract . |
| 44 | No wonder the Secretary of State has been given a roving brief across Europe . |
| 45 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
| 46 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 47 | Norman Cole , a partner in Specsaver , which has branches in Stockton and Middlesbrough , has been given a temporary suspension for two years from the British College of Opticians . |
| 48 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
| 51 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |
| 52 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 53 | POLICE station cleaner Ted Blight has been given a new job … looking after prisoners in the cells . |
| 54 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 55 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
| 56 | Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election . |
| 57 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
| 58 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
| 59 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 60 | From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s . |