Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
| 2 | Each key contrastive feature of grammar or phonology has been given a number in brackets ( [ F 1 ] , [ G 1 ] , etc. ) and these will be used elsewhere in the book when reference is made to these specific features of the language varieties in contact . |
| 3 | WHEELCHAIR tennis has been given a boost in the province in the wake of a successful clinic which was staged at the CIYMS club in Belfast . |
| 4 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 5 | Martyn Moxon , who has been granted a benefit in 1993 by Yorkshire , recently received the Society 's ‘ Cricketer of the Year ’ Award for 1991 . |
| 6 | THE Capenhurst decommissioning team has been awarded a plaque in recognition of a paper presented at the Oak Ridge Conference in the United States . |
| 7 | FORMER All Black captain DAVID KIRK , who narrowly missed a seat in the New Zealand Parliament representing the constituency of the former Prime Minister , Sir Robert Muldoon , has been offered a job in the office of the New Prime Minister in Wellington . |
| 8 | Following the burglary , she has been offered a place in a warden controlled block in Milton Keynes . |
| 9 | The youngster has been offered a place in both the Liverpool and Everton schools of excellence . |
| 10 | He 'd been given a position in prison administration in Paris , and Sylvia thought he might be of help to her in finding Madeleine and Jeanne . |
| 11 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd been offered a job in America , nanny to a widower with two small children . |
| 13 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 14 | Even without his son , Leopold Mozart ( 1719–1787 ) ( 1 ) would have been guaranteed a place in the history books . |
| 15 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |
| 16 | Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals . |
| 17 | She is another likely to have been denied a post in the Kinnock government that now will not happen . |
| 18 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 19 | Judge Gerhard A. Gesell ruled that Hopkins , who had been denied a partnership in 1982 because her colleagues considered her to be too " macho " , had been the victim of illegal " sex stereotyping " . |
| 20 | Mr Bonfield also disclosed that , following initial hostility , ICL had been given a role in the European Community 's advanced communications programme after reassuring critics that the technology flow with Fujitsu would be two-way . |
| 21 | I had been given a week in Sydney before sailing for New Zealand . |
| 22 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 23 | New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit . |
| 24 | Bromhead was active in communicating Green 's later memoirs to the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( of which Bromhead had been elected a fellow in 1823 ) . |
| 25 | Returning to Pembroke , of which he had been elected a fellow in 1899 , he became librarian and lecturer in Slavonic studies in 1901 . |
| 26 | Each of the Moi carried a long-bladed machete which had been dubbed a coupe-code in Annam , and taking one from the nearest tribesman , the Senator bent over the dead buffalo . |
| 27 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 28 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been left a house in France , end of subject , except that it is my intention — ’ |
| 30 | I 've been offered a job in general practice . |