Example sentences of "has been [vb pp] [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wins , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 2 | If confirmed , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 3 | A 24-year-old man has been cleared by a Liverpool Crown Court jury of possessing about £1.5m worth of ecstasy tablets . |
| 4 | Although some footage has been shot in Vietnam , the film has been hampered by a US embargo and complex negotiations with the Vietnamese government . |
| 5 | Built in 1870 by Palmerston to ward off the French , this circular granite and steel stronghold which was never used for its original purpose , rises sheer from the sea bed , and has been converted into a James Bond style multi-millionaire 's private residence . |
| 6 | A man at the centre of a stay-behind group in France has been killed in a Brittany sailing resort . |
| 7 | When they moved to Althorp in 1975 on the death of their grandfather , the 7th Earl , Charles said goodbye to every room and Diana today still revisits her former home , even though it has been turned into a Cheshire Home holiday hotel for the disabled . |
| 8 | For instance , the original vibrato unit has been replaced by a Washburn Wonderbar , and the nut has been swapped for what looks like graphite , presumably to aid tuning stability . |
| 9 | He has been pictured in a Tarzan suit with a helicopter hovering over his head . |
| 10 | AN URGENT review of safety procedures has been started at a London comprehensive school after two teenage pupils were questioned by detectives investigating the alleged rape of a 27-year-old teacher . |
| 11 | The tape has been mixed at a Gloucester recording studio , using Steve 's voice . |
| 12 | JOCKEY Lester Piggott has been discharged from a Miami Hospitalthe day before his 57th birthday . |
| 13 | NURSE Beverley Allitt , who faces four charges of murdering children , has been switched from a Yorkshire jail to Rampton top-security hospital . |
| 14 | SHREWSBURY manager John Bond has been forced by a Burnley hate mob to stay away from his side 's FA Cup tie at Turf Moor on Saturday . |
| 15 | Grampian Police say he has been identified as a Northfield resident but his name is being withheld . |
| 16 | A CHARITY which takes deprived children on camping trips has been helped by a Middlesbrough hotel . |
| 17 | Daedalic has been claimed as a Dorian style ; but purely Daedalic heads are found on marble lamps made in the Ionian Cyclades , and the first monumental marble sculpture from the same area is inseparable from the Daedalic tradition . |
| 18 | The play , by Belfast writer Maria Jones , is aimed at children with special needs , and the production has been nominated for a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award for best production of 1992 . |
| 19 | A PORTABLE phone , valued at £500 , has been stolen from a Vauxhall car in Winchester Road , Four Marks . |
| 20 | Martin Richmond , who 's from Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire , has been held in a Katmandu jail since the beginning of December . |
| 21 | ‘ I am appalled , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ that when a company is trading £0.5m in the red , when it has failed to file its accounts , and when it has been reported to a DTI Minister , there is still no failsafe mechanism to pick the matter up . ’ |
| 22 | Returning to the jungle he finds he has to kill Lowery who has been stung by a Varga . |
| 23 | Also a very similar figure has been found on a Nene Valley sherd ( fig. 14.22 ) . |
| 24 | THE body of missing British businessman Howard Bates has been found in a Florida swamp . |
| 25 | No evidence for predicted elevated nitrate production has been found in a Greenland ice core . |
| 26 | The 600 has been designed with a Honda engine and Rover body . |