Example sentences of "it [verb] been [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
| 2 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
| 3 | So valuable has the dating of tephra become that it has been given a specific name — tephrochronology . |
| 4 | It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players . |
| 5 | It has never been seen again , though it has been given an official variable star designation : T Boo¨tis . |
| 6 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 7 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 8 | Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car . |
| 9 | It has been conducting an urgent review of the way it manages its affairs and is embarking upon a further review of the number and function of its various committees . |
| 10 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 11 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 12 | On each of the three occasions this century where there has been a clear coalition government — May 1915 to November 1922 , August 1931 to September 1932 , and May 1940 to May 1945 — it has been to meet a national emergency . |
| 13 | He will be aware , bearing in mind the other pressures we have on the budget this year , how difficult it has been to get a higher priority for roads . |
| 14 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 15 | As recently as September 1990 it had been expecting a 2.4 per cent growth for 1991 . |
| 16 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 17 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 18 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 19 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 20 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 21 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 22 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |
| 23 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 24 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 25 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 26 | It 's been running a similar pilot scheme at the Radcliffe Infirmary for the past eighteen months and says consultants are enthusiastic about the results . |