Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 2 | For example , an investor might sell for 100p per share one week and if he or she has been proven correct in their expectations may buy the share for say 80p each the following week , thus netting a profit per share of 20p before transactions costs . |
| 3 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 4 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 5 | She has been appointed public relations assistant . |
| 6 | BABY kidnapper Caren McSweeney is so stunned by what she did that she has been struck dumb . |
| 7 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 8 | She has been left alone to lead something approaching a normal life now and then . |
| 9 | But she has been left stranded after thieves stole the blue Yamaha XT600 from the car park of a Southport hotel . |
| 10 | This causes him to doubt himself , that is his worthiness in loving Estella as he now thinks because he has been called common and coarse . |
| 11 | He has been granted legal aid for the case , which if successful could lead to hundreds of other claims . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems has lost its vice president treasurer , Thomas Meredith , to Dell Computer , where he has been named chief financial officer . |
| 13 | Sometimes , however , a customer will complain that he has been given incorrect change . |
| 14 | Gardiner , the Observer 's architectural critic , knew Epstein , Lady Epstein and their family from the early Fifties and this biography is authorised in that he has been given unprecedented access to family papers , including letters between the artist and Kathleen Garman . |
| 15 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 16 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 17 | But he has been found guilty of committing serious sexual offences , and given a conditional discharge . |
| 18 | When best-selling author Max Telligan 's secretary , Liz , and his about-to-be-ex-wife Harriet , read that he has been found dead in Munich , they are stunned . |
| 19 | He has been offered alternative deals to cover both options . |
| 20 | ‘ And you were going to say that the accused was guilty , before the end of the trial , before he has been proved guilty ! ’ |
| 21 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 22 | In an emotional response to the 2–0 defeat in Boston which piled on the agony after an identical scoreline in the World Cup in Norway a week earlier , Taylor knows he has been left naked to the most virulent attacks by media and fans . |
| 23 | It has been neglected relative to the study of conventional/street crime . |
| 24 | Colour is another consideration and here it has been kept pale and cool . |
| 25 | Furthermore , MDC 's capacity to meet the new challenges has to be questioned , since it has been granted limited additional resources and has recruited no extra staff to meet its wider remit . |
| 26 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 27 | Recently , however , it has been given added emphasis and urgency by the growing appreciation that the damage being done to the environment by the use of fossil fuels may require drastic restrictions on their use . |
| 28 | An environmental statement was required from the company it has been given full publicity I believe that the Planning Committee and County Planning Committee today have sufficient information to come to a decision an informed decision . |
| 29 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 30 | It has been made possible by improvements in communication and organizational efficiency . |