Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases where the lis had not yet been joined the applicant was less successful . |
| 2 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |
| 3 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 4 | After any other party has been heard the judge should give his formal ruling . |
| 5 | In recognition of their magnanimity , the original Beaux-Arts portion of the museum has been christened the Tanenbaum Centre of European Art . |
| 6 | It has been christened the Ecotec V6 ( emission , consumption , optimisation and technology ) because of its compactness , economy and cleanness . |
| 7 | The words and figures must agree , if either has been altered the alteration must be signed by the drawer . |
| 8 | The child becomes conditioned to dislike food and even when the disorder has been treated the child will continue to avoid food because of past experience . |
| 9 | The undefeated Chicago Bears , who beat the powerful Philadelphia Eagles last week , had to deal only with the paltry Tampa Bay Buccaneers , who had been crushed the week before . |
| 10 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 11 | This had been arranged the day before . |
| 12 | Once the application has been registered the court fee can not be refunded . |
| 13 | An improvement on this basic design was to use a lightweight but rigid rotating rod on which to mount the magnet and mirror , and attach a coil spring at one end , so that once any change in potential difference had been registered the mirror would swing back to its original position . |
| 14 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
| 15 | At MGM Lorna Lewis had been given the keyword ‘ kittenish ’ to help focus her identity — cute , blonde and comic , more down-to-earth than Grace Kelly , less neurotic than Monroe but sexier than Doris Day . |
| 16 | Harry 's great merit was that , once he had been given the ball , he was a speedy and direct raider . |
| 17 | She was on the very first Dreamflight in 1987 as a leukaemia sufferer and was now back as a helper , having been given the all-clear this year . |
| 18 | Mr Parfitt 's brother , Phil , confirmed that his wife had been worried by cancer scares — but had been given the all-clear . |
| 19 | MARK Hateley has been given the all-clear to play for Rangers if the Scottish champions reach the European Cup final . |
| 20 | BELFAST 'S prestigious Castle Court complex has been given the all-clear by experts worried by bizarre glass explosions at modern buildings . |
| 21 | But the manager CastleCourt , Belfast 's best known glass complex , says his building has been given the all-clear following tests . |
| 22 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 23 | His finger injury , however , has been given the all-clear . |
| 24 | By plotting ring patterns of trees in this area , scientists can date ancient building timbers , and other wood artifacts , by comparing ring patterns with those of the bristlecone pines ( such studies have been given the name of dendrochronotogy . |
| 25 | These lethal little amphibians belong to a family that has been given the name of poison-arrow frogs . |
| 26 | Since those early days of ‘ home robotics ’ this combination of science and art has been given the name ‘ animatronics ’ . |
| 27 | This second element has been given the name ‘ local sign ’ ’ . |
| 28 | The meeting concluded with the unanimous approval of a resolution strongly condemning the policy of forced expulsions — the policy which had been given the name " ethnic cleansing " ( " etnicko ciscenje ) . |
| 29 | The small , ox-like forest animal discovered in south-western Vietnam last year [ see ED 61 ] has now been given the name Pseudoryx nghetinhensis . |
| 30 | It has been given the name " facial vision " , because blind people have reported that it feels a bit like the sense of touch , on the face . |