Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
2 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
3 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
4 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
5 | There are so many works of art in the church that it has been declared a museum and is included as such on the official list of Milanese museums . |
6 | In stark terms , B has been denied a judgment by a tribunal which had agreed that certain issues should be heard by it and upon which it had heard argument . |
7 | Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata . |
8 | John Akast , an assistant recorder from the same East Anglian chambers and based in Ipswich , has been appointed a Recorder to the South Eastern Circuit . |
9 | John Devaux , who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989 , has been appointed a circuit judge . |
10 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
11 | Alan Armstrong , Senior Professional Technical Officer , has been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order ( MVO ) . |
12 | Mrs Ann M Vinton , the chairman and co-founder of The Reject Shop plc , has been appointed a member of the Covent Garden Market Authority . |
13 | JIM WELLS , who recently retired as training director of the North West Training Council has been appointed a director of their main board . |
14 | Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department . |
15 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
16 | Dr David Walker , Chief Inspector of Historic Buildings , has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . |
17 | John Ward , 33 has been appointed an account director at Yarm-based advertising agency RDW Advertising . |
18 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
19 | Monetary targets have been extended with the narrow money supply target remaining at zero to 4 per cent while the broad money target range has been widened a point on either side to between 3 and 9 per cent . |
20 | This project has been called a DIY design as it is open to certain modifications to suit particular whims . |
21 | The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime . |
22 | The map of the London Underground , which can be seen inside every train , on all stations , on the back of the London A-Z guide , on tea-cloths on sale at the London Transport Museum , on posters , in diaries and in sundry other places , has been called a model of its kind , a work of art . |
23 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
24 | Bletchley Park has been called a menagerie , and in the variety and eccentricity of its inhabitants , so it was . |
25 | The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has been called an Aladdin 's Cave of treasures . |
26 | Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap . |
27 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
28 | Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of |
29 | East Cleveland academic Dr Mike Featherstone , 45 , of Marske Lane , Skelton , has been made a professor by Teesside Polytechnic on the eve of its elevation to university status . |
30 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |