Example sentences of "it has [been] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It never drops below magnitude 10.5 , and at maximum it may rise to 5.9 , so that it is then on the fringe of naked-eye visibility and is easy in any binoculars ; it is distinguished by its intense redness , and it has been nicknamed the Crimson Star .
2 Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job .
3 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 .
4 So valuable has the dating of tephra become that it has been given a specific name — tephrochronology .
5 It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players .
6 It has been given the lowest efficiency target in the country by the Government 's new Passenger 's Charter .
7 It has never been seen again , though it has been given an official variable star designation : T Boo¨tis .
8 However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota .
9 It has been called the quickest personal growth experience you can have .
10 IT HAS been called the victimless crime .
11 Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car .
12 Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round !
13 I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear .
14 Since the event began in 1973 it has been held every fourth year and split into 5 legs of different size and difficulty .
15 But with ‘ decultured ’ Aborigines it has become such a problem that it has been labelled the Black Death .
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