Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) .
2 One approach that has been given a lot of importance is distinctive feature analysis , which is based on the principle that phonemes should be regarded not as independent and indivisible units , but instead as combinations of different features .
3 And then it will bias the market : anyone who wants to get into the Polish market will have to persuade a company that has been assigned an import quota to act as its channel . ’
4 I think Klute is a superb film and I think he ( his father ) set an acting style in that film that has been mimicked a great deal since .
5 The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit .
6 welcomed everyone with the news that had been awarded a GL&SE Sports Council Award for Services to Sport , in the category of ‘ Raising Standards of Performance ’ for her work with the National Display Team .
7 He thought of his dam that had been to make a lake .
8 He 's right , he has the body of a whippet topped by the face of a bulldog that 's been given a severe kicking .
9 The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic .
10 The company launched a a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months .
11 The company launched a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months .
12 It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument .
13 The wooded glen at the start of this walk is home to over 120 species of flowering plants and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 If an offender , even a very young offender , has been given the benefit and assistance of probation and has been given a community service order , what is the court to do when he comes back again and again and again ?
17 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 .
18 ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave .
19 The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk .
20 Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% .
21 Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest .
22 She is a member of Canzonetta — a newly formed chamber choir directed by David Victor-Smith and has been awarded a place at the Royal Northern College of Music in September .
23 While she worked she told Sara how fortunate she was to be going to Portugal and to have been found a husband and how , when she was married , it would be her duty to obey him and remain utterly faithful to him , taking the Blessed Virgin Mary as her model and guide in all things .
24 He had lost everything and had been made a ‘ scapegoat ’ by the Government , said his solicitors .
25 Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald .
26 Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ?
30 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 .
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