Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence , in war and in political martyrdom . |
| 2 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
| 3 | He is a keen follower of football and cricket and has recently been made an honorary vice-president of Altrincham FC . |
| 4 | Following the October general election , John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the United Kingdom , was appointed Prime Minister on Nov. 8 , replacing Joseph Warioba , who had hitherto been considered an eventual successor to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi . |
| 5 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 6 | Four political parties had already been allocated an exact number of seats in the Little Hural from party preferences returned during the July elections [ see table below ] . |
| 7 | As to my sign , you 've already been given an important clue . |
| 8 | A phenomenon from the eyewitness testimony literature which had often been considered an extreme effect of attention focusing in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis is known as ‘ weapon focus ’ ( Johnson & Scott , 1976 ; Kramer , Buckhout & Eugenio , 1990 ; E. F. Loftus , 1979 ; E. F. Loftus , G. R. Loftus & Messo , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | In these withdrawal classes they have frequently been offered an inappropriate , low-level curricular experience accompanied by low teacher expectation — just as many disruptive children have . |
| 10 | I have recently been given an electric propagator and am keen to grow lots of plants from seed . |
| 11 | Police have recently been receiving an increasing number of calls from householders reporting the theft of ‘ wheelie bins ’ . |