Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Forest has been designated a Special Protection Area ( SPA ) for birds by the UK government , making it the 38th site in the UK so designated under the EC wild birds directive . |
| 2 | Lady Kilmarnock , Amis 's first wife , roared with laughter ( she and Lord K share digs with him — an unusual menage ) , while Paul Fussell , an old American friend of Amis , disclosed : ‘ Kingsley has been sent a clean set of underwear as a birthday present . |
| 3 | ICI has been branded a Scrooge after cancelling Christmas parties for pensioners . |
| 4 | Bootle-born Shirli-Ann Siddall has been given a wildcard entry . |
| 5 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
| 6 | LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington . |
| 7 | Taylor has been helped a great deal in the six weeks of preparation for the tour by England 's last great left-arm fast-bowler , John ‘ J.K. ’ Lever and the team 's new top bowling coach , Geoff Arnold . |
| 8 | Saints ' chairman Eric Latham said today : ‘ Nobody at St Helens has been offered a better contract than Gary Connolly and we hope he will sign it , but that is up to Gary . |
| 9 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
| 10 | Borg has been given a wild card for this week 's Nice Open and next week 's Monte Carlo Open . |
| 11 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
| 12 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
| 13 | Marples has been given a free transfer by manager John Ward , even though he still has a year of his contract to go . |
| 14 | A RESEARCH unit at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham has been given a £130,000 boost by a funding body . |
| 15 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
| 16 | Former Newcastle reserve full back Andrew Cole has been offered a one-year contract . |
| 17 | * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees |
| 18 | He 's known as a bit of a smoothie but Nigel Havers has been given a harder edge in his new series , Sleepers , starting next week . |
| 19 | The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence . |
| 20 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
| 21 | Errol has been handed a three-game ban by the Ulster Branch 's Disciplinary Committee , after receiving three yellow cards during the season — but because his club have finished their programme , the ban wo n't take effect until the start of next season . |
| 22 | Alcatel NV 's Alcatel Submarcom has been awarded a $25.8m contract to supply and install the fibre optic cable between Greece , Cyprus and Crete : the cable is scheduled to come into service in August 1994 . |
| 23 | Soccer coaching for girls in Bristol has been given a boost from British Gas South Western . |
| 24 | This focus on a particular strategy of growth-based survival on both sides of the Atlantic has been lent a credibility by the apparent successes of these high profile city projects . |
| 25 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 26 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 27 | JULIE Morris has been hailed a champion of young solicitors . |
| 28 | The story , based on a novel by Edith Wharton has been called a heterosexual ‘ Death in Venice ’ , but it is far more than that ( you may equally regard it as a grown-up ‘ Sound of Music ’ ) ! |
| 29 | THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate . |
| 30 | A CLEAN sweep at the Treasury , where Norman Lamont has been given a whole new team of ministers . |