Example sentences of "and have [been] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic .
2 It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The £750 Heineken Puppy Trophy winner has an average sectional time of 5.26 and usually flies out of the boxes and has been given an ideal trap six draw .
6 He had been to Martin Finkelstein 's bar mitzvah and had been given a small white hat , which was still on his mantelpiece at home .
7 Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald .
8 Yes , Jack had certainly cracked in the pro-am , and had been given a sharp reprimand by the tournament director , Oliver Moreton , no doubt much to the latter 's enjoyment .
9 He was four years older than I was , and had been given the silver-spoon education that the son of a wealthy Edinburgh family was entitled to expect , I suppose . ’
10 He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife .
11 Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league .
12 There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ .
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