Example sentences of "[noun prp] has be [verb] 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 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
4 | ICI has been branded a Scrooge after cancelling Christmas parties for pensioners . |
5 | Bootle-born Shirli-Ann Siddall has been given a wildcard entry . |
6 | ‘ Baker has been carrying a strained abdomen for some time . |
7 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
8 | LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
12 | Borg has been given a wild card for this week 's Nice Open and next week 's Monte Carlo Open . |
13 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
14 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
15 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
16 | Marples has been given a free transfer by manager John Ward , even though he still has a year of his contract to go . |
17 | ‘ Between now and meeting Fergie and Andy , Johnny has been playing a double game . |
18 | For some time Rex has been conducting a correspondence with one of the brewers entirely in verse . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Donald Gould has been digesting a report from the OHE |
21 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
22 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
23 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
24 | Former Newcastle reserve full back Andrew Cole has been offered a one-year contract . |
25 | British Telecom has been demonstrating a video phone with BT says will sell for £800 a pair . |
26 | * 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 |
27 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence . |
30 | 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 . |