Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been lent an old relegated rod with two mottled bamboo sections and a greenheart tip , a plastic centre-pin reel and a yellowed quill float . |
| 2 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 3 | The year before , she and the Prince of Wales had been sent an unusual gift . |
| 4 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 5 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 6 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 7 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 8 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 9 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 10 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 11 | She was a dignified octogenarian aristocrat who had been made an honorary Chief-Corporal in the Regiment since she had served with it in World War Two . |
| 12 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 13 | Although Dmitrii Miliutin 's predecessor as War Minister , General Sukhozanet , had been considered an unimaginative choice for the position at the time of his appointment in 1856 , he had instigated or been obliged to accept " Literally hundreds of changes " in the conduct of military affairs . |
| 14 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 15 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 16 | That invention had been awarded an English patent but B did not mention that fact to the plaintiffs , and after he left he acquired it . |
| 17 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 18 | This means that he did not consider that by taking the brahmacārya vow he was necessarily withdrawing from the life of society , which was one reason why he resented being called an ascetic . |