Example sentences of "[conj] has [be] [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 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 .
4 The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic .
5 It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave .
11 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 .
12 Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% .
13 Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest .
14 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 .
15 The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh , I believe , had a recent £200,000 deficit , but has been awarded a larger grant .
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