Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
2 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
3 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
4 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
5 | In his letter of resignation to the party leader , Mr Rezsoe Nyers , with whom he has been waging a long-running feud , Mr Nemeth stated he had no option but to resign . |
6 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
7 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
8 | The House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman , because he has been making a clear statement and drawing a clear distinction between the two sides of the House . |
9 | This week in Georgia he has been keeping a low profile , wrapped up in his own game plan , which is how he best enjoys life , it seems . |
10 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
11 | He has been offered a full-time contract for July and has accepted . ’ |
12 | Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week . |
13 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
14 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
15 | The approach he took was to develop a Virtual Processor — a 32-bit machine with 16 registers and support for standard data types and addressing modes , which did n't actually exist . |
16 | The approach he took was to develop a Virtual Processor — a 32-bit machine with 16 registers and support for standard data types and addressing modes , which did n't actually exist . |
17 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
18 | This must have been in the two years between the autumn or summer of 1187 , when he left Paris , and September 1189 , by which time he had been created a cardinal deacon by his relative , Pope Clement III . |
19 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
20 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
21 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
22 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
23 | A few days ago , some hooligan or other walked into our bedroom , mine and Jane 's — and lifted " Suddenly , as the thought struck him , he jerked back in his chair , as if he had been given a minor electric shock , and stared at Alice , his jaw literally dropping . |
24 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |
25 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
26 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
27 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
28 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
29 | Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking . |
30 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |