Example sentences of "have be [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales .
2 Professor Peter Warren of the Classics Department has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Society for Cretan Historical Studies .
3 S. M. Qaim , CChem , FRSC , has been elected a foreign member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences .
4 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 .
5 Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Pickering of the Department of Anatomy has been elected an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences .
6 Meanwhile , Castlemorton Common near Malvern in Worcester , invaded by 20,000 travellers last year , has been declared a no-go area by the Home Secretary .
7 A WOODEN Darlington church has been declared a no-go area in bad weather .
8 The Monument to the People 's Heroes , the stone obelisk in the middle of the square where student leaders had their ‘ command centre ’ , has been declared a forbidden zone because it is felt to have been contaminated by the students ' presence .
9 It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument .
10 Despite agreement some years ago that seven sites around Britain 's coast needed protection , only one — Lundy Island — has been declared a Marine Nature Reserve so far , writes Dr Madeleine Havard , WWF 's Marine Conservation Officer .
11 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 .
12 Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) .
13 ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’
14 LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington .
15 Investment analyst Eric de Bellaigue ( above ) , who was with Grenfell & Colegrave and latterly with stockbrokers Panmure Gordon until his retirement in January , has been appointed a non-executive director of the Quarto Group .
16 Sheila Tindle , 28 , has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke .
17 He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant .
18 Sarah Lutyens , head of rights , contracts and special sales , has been appointed an associate director of Pan Macmillan .
19 Eric Forth has been telling an international petroleum seminar in Dunstable that there 's no need to step in and limit the price rises .
20 In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year .
21 The tort has been extended a good deal since Lumley v. Gye and in its modern form its requirements may be summarised as follows .
22 It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country .
23 She has been taking a small holiday .
24 A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week .
25 Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul .
26 For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving .
27 Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants .
28 However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France .
29 The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic .
30 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 .
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