Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’ |
32 | In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed . |
33 | Lady Kilmarnock , Amis 's first wife , roared with laughter ( she and Lord K share digs with him — an unusual menage ) , while Paul Fussell , an old American friend of Amis , disclosed : ‘ Kingsley has been sent a clean set of underwear as a birthday present . |
34 | Airbus has been given a three-year guarantee on that contract . |
35 | No wonder the Secretary of State has been given a roving brief across Europe . |
36 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
37 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
38 | Norman Cole , a partner in Specsaver , which has branches in Stockton and Middlesbrough , has been given a temporary suspension for two years from the British College of Opticians . |
39 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
40 | 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 . |
41 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
42 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |
43 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
44 | POLICE station cleaner Ted Blight has been given a new job … looking after prisoners in the cells . |
45 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
46 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
47 | Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election . |
48 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
49 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
50 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
51 | From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s . |
52 | It is important from the landlord 's point of view to ensure that the centre does not expand where the tenant has been given a fixed service charge percentage , unless provisions are inserted in the lease to countenance this . |
53 | The five-year-old confined to a London hospital bed has been given a postal pick-me-up with get well cards from school pupils . |
54 | THE Irish golfer , Eamonn Darcy ( above ) , has been given a delicate commission — to design two new golf courses on the site of the Battle of the Boyne . |
55 | The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence . |
56 | An unemployed man who caught pike out of season to feed his family has been given a conditional discharge by magistrates . |
57 | Jeremy Batty , an 18-year-old off-spinner , has been given a two-year contract by Yorkshire after his first-class debut in the last game of the season against Lancashire at Scarborough when he had match figures of 8 for 193 . |
58 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |
59 | So valuable has the dating of tephra become that it has been given a specific name — tephrochronology . |
60 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |