Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) .
2 The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence .
3 It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there .
4 A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye .
5 ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself .
6 The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown .
7 There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books .
8 I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear .
9 Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company .
10 However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct .
11 Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there .
12 A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty .
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