Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
| 2 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 3 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 4 | Alan Armstrong , Senior Professional Technical Officer , has been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order ( MVO ) . |
| 5 | Mrs Ann M Vinton , the chairman and co-founder of The Reject Shop plc , has been appointed a member of the Covent Garden Market Authority . |
| 6 | JIM WELLS , who recently retired as training director of the North West Training Council has been appointed a director of their main board . |
| 7 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 8 | Dr David Walker , Chief Inspector of Historic Buildings , has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . |
| 9 | The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime . |
| 10 | The map of the London Underground , which can be seen inside every train , on all stations , on the back of the London A-Z guide , on tea-cloths on sale at the London Transport Museum , on posters , in diaries and in sundry other places , has been called a model of its kind , a work of art . |
| 11 | Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of |
| 12 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 13 | So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk . |
| 14 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 15 | Ekaterina Likhoda from the Sverdlovsk region , 200 miles from Moscow , has been sent a copy of Chester-le-Street business club 's guide to starting a new business . |
| 16 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 17 | a splendid initiative and it 's similar to the way in which the district council is now devolving responsibility for public toilets , and I 'm delighted that local government reorganization has been given a bit of stir that districts and county councils to get their acts together . |
| 18 | Their development has been entrusted to the Countryside Commission , which has been given a grant of £600,000 to set up a co-ordinating committee for each forest . |
| 19 | One approach that has been given a lot of importance is distinctive feature analysis , which is based on the principle that phonemes should be regarded not as independent and indivisible units , but instead as combinations of different features . |
| 20 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 21 | The club has been given an allocation of 17,800 by the Football Association , and after season ticket holders and club commitments there will be about 12,000 tickets left for Gold Card holders who have collected the three vouchers at the home games against Ipswich , Plymouth and Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The wooded glen at the start of this walk is home to over 120 species of flowering plants and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 24 | The study looked at all areas of the natural environment , including the management of the diverse grasslands and associated rare species , for which the Park has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 25 | RICHMOND Royal Park in southwest London has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the wildlife preserved there since it was created three centuries ago . |
| 26 | Although it has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , several things blot the landscape . |
| 27 | A popular area for walkers , Blackdown Hills in South Devon and Somerset , has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty by the Countryside Commission ( CC ) . |
| 28 | A PLAN to put lifesize plastic tourists on Southport seafront has been branded a waste of taxpayers ' money . |
| 29 | Darren Young , 11 , has been prescribed a course of the antibiotic amoxycillin for an ear infection . |
| 30 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |