Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In stark terms , B has been denied a judgment by a tribunal which had agreed that certain issues should be heard by it and upon which it had heard argument . |
| 2 | East Cleveland academic Dr Mike Featherstone , 45 , of Marske Lane , Skelton , has been made a professor by Teesside Polytechnic on the eve of its elevation to university status . |
| 3 | Locus Computing Corp has been given a grant by the US National Science Foundation to investigate system software optimised for networked portable computers . |
| 4 | Ironically , at the eleventh hour the plight of the belugas has been given a boost by the success of whale-watching cruises in the St Lawrence . |
| 5 | BELFAST 'S prestigious Castle Court complex has been given the all-clear by experts worried by bizarre glass explosions at modern buildings . |
| 6 | DAVE McAULEY has been given the go-ahead by a British Boxing Board doctor to resume full training after arm and foot injuries for his IBF flyweight title defence against Dodie Penalosa , of the Philippines , which the IBF insists must take place by 7 December . |
| 7 | A LAW allowing courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Mr Clarke . |
| 8 | A LAW allowing the courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They point out that disenchantment has been swollen no doubt by recent events such as the surge in unemployment past the three million mark , the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool and even the February weather . |
| 11 | Foster has been granted a benefit by Essex in 1993 . |
| 12 | The polytechnic soon to be known as the University of Teesside has been granted the right by the Council for National Academic Awards . |
| 13 | A BOY of 10 has been hailed a hero by police after his family were terrorised in their beds by a gang of masked gunmen . |
| 14 | The jury in the James murder trial at Preston Crown Court has been read a statement by a train driver who described how two days after James 's disappearance , he saw human remains on the railway line at Walton . |
| 15 | AN experimental telephone scheme in the North-east of Scotland , aimed at countering hoax , malicious and obscene phone calls , has been voted a success by 500 BT customers . |
| 16 | The Council of Science and Technology Institutes has been awarded a contract by the Employment Department to commission a major six-month study into the employment pattern of scientists . |
| 17 | David ‘ Syd ’ Lawrence , who recently returned to bowling in the nets after his horrific knee injury in New Zealand , has been awarded a benefit by Gloucestershire in 1993 . |
| 18 | Butterworth was ‘ on the skids ’ , having been made a scapegoat by Acheson for the bankruptcy of American policy in China ; Butterworth would shortly be posted abroad , which was correct as he soon afterwards departed to be American minister in Stockholm . |
| 19 | Having been recommended the site by the TDC , Mr Anderson said he thought planning permission would be a formality . |
| 20 | In February 1284 , Constance de Béarn , vicomtesse of Marsan , complained that her claim to the comté of Bigorre had been assigned a hearing by Jean de Grilly , seneschal of Gascony , at Langon in the Bazadais because , she alleged , he knew that ‘ the customs of Bazadais were against her , and that the opposing parties would be aided by those customs ’ . |
| 21 | Interviewed in Edinburgh after a Class 91 electric locomotive had been named The Scotsman by the paper 's editor , Magnus Linklater , Mr Green stressed his belief that the Glasgow-London Euston route had a good future . |
| 22 | The Foreign Ministry on Aug. 21 announced that there had been discovered an attempt by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mohamed Taki to destabilize the government , and that one French mercenary and two Comorans had been arrested . |
| 23 | He blushed guiltily , but the small part of his brain that had been vaguely monitoring the discussion alerted him to the fact that he had been asked a question by the executive producer . |
| 24 | It would have helped him if the two most awkward customers in the political equation — Sinn Fein and the DUP — had been given a drubbing by the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists respectively . |
| 25 | After six months Miloš made a ceremonial entry into Belgrade to parley with the newly appointed Turkish governor , Marasli , who had been given a mandate by the sultan to make concessions in order to pacify the Serbs . |
| 26 | He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea . |
| 27 | Schwob , who had been given the information by the federal prosecutor 's office , was also acquitted of violating official secrecy and awarded 30,000 Swiss francs in damages . |
| 28 | In his book Under Fire : An American Story , published on Oct. 22 , North avowed that former President Ronald Reagan not only " knew everything " about the Iran-contra project but also " enthusiastically " backed it , and that he had been made a scapegoat by senior Reagan administration officials seeking to protect the President and themselves . |
| 29 | Later , when tempers had cooled , her father , Mirza Farkunda Zamal , had been awarded a pension by the penitent British authorities ; he was even given a seat of honour at the first Delhi Durbar in 1877 . |
| 30 | Harris , who last season captained the Raleigh-Banana team which has now been disbanded , announced yesterday that he had been offered a contract by the Spanish Lotus-Festina squad . |