Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 2 | Neither the 2,000 Bari or the 6,000 Yukpa have been granted full land rights . |
| 3 | But after an advertisement in the Financial Times asking for offers Touche Ross have been kept busy sorting the inquiries . |
| 4 | Shops in Manila have been stripped bare in panic buying , there have been runs on banks , and the government has advised city-folk to grow vegetables in their gardens and to stop ironing clothes to save energy . |
| 5 | About 70,000 Mozambican migrant workers in South Africa have been made redundant and returned home , causing local unemployment and loss of remittances to state and families . |
| 6 | HUNDREDS of caravanners caught in the middle of a three-year planning row on Teesside have been given new hope . |
| 7 | MIDDLESBROUGH full back Jimmy Phillips and midfield player Mark Proctor have been offered new contracts . |
| 8 | Reserve strikers Ian Arnold and Paul Hanford have been given free transfers . |
| 9 | RESIDENTS set to lose their bus service to and from Darlington have been given fresh hope . |
| 10 | Three protestors supporting President Gamsakhurdia have been shot dead by gunmen in Tblisi . |
| 11 | Increased trade with third countries due to this effect and also the induced trade following from the increase in growth stimulated by the creating of the CU have been called external trade creation . |
| 12 | Flashman 's lawyer Stanley Beller issued a statement afterwards saying : ‘ Quite simply , Barnet have been found guilty of a number of technical offences . |
| 13 | The three-man commission — League president Gordon McKeag , Bury chairman Terry Robinson and Lincoln chairman John Reames — said in a statement : ‘ Barnet have been found guilty of a number of breaches of Football League regulations , mainly in connection with the keeping of proper books of account and players ' contracts . |
| 14 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 15 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |