Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 2 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 3 | Martyn Moxon , who has been granted a benefit in 1993 by Yorkshire , recently received the Society 's ‘ Cricketer of the Year ’ Award for 1991 . |
| 4 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 5 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 6 | Mike , who has been given a car and a house by his new employers , has yet to see his new surroundings , and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown . |
| 7 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 8 | She wore a faintly sly and greedy look , like a child who has been promised a rather disreputable treat if it 's good . |
| 9 | One of the most notable is supermodel Cindy Crawford who has been hailed a ‘ global role model ’ for women . |
| 10 | I am a senior enrolled nurse who wants to hear from any enrolled or senior enrolled nurse who has been awarded a staff nurse grade F , or above , in 1988 , or subsequently through the grading appeals system . |
| 11 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 12 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |
| 13 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 14 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 15 | It 's our members in these industries who 've been given a hammering since privatization and who need as much support as possible to give them the confidence to face further difficult years ahead . |
| 16 | In early December , Marjorie , Lady Lewis opened the Lewis Wing of the Law Faculty in the Wills Memorial Building , which was refurbished using funds raised form the local law practices to commemorate professor Martin Lewis , the first Professor of Law at the University , and his son Judge Sir Ian , Lady Lewis 's late husband , who had been elected a Pro-Chancellor the University shortly before his untimely death . |
| 17 | This fuelled rumours that the murder was the work of the anti-Semitic Russian nationalist group Pamyat , from which Fr Men ( who had been born a Jew ) reportedly had received threatening letters . |
| 18 | On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ? |
| 19 | Judge Gerhard A. Gesell ruled that Hopkins , who had been denied a partnership in 1982 because her colleagues considered her to be too " macho " , had been the victim of illegal " sex stereotyping " . |
| 20 | As they approached the village , Mungo felt a little like a prisoner who had been given a taste of freedom . |
| 21 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 22 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 23 | Our neighbour , who had been given a key to check on our house while we had been away , had thoughtfully lit a fire to welcome us home . |
| 24 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 25 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 26 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 27 | I have had difficult cases , like the woman who had been given a Caesarean operation : giving birth after that kind of operation is very delicate , but it turned out all right . |
| 28 | In Malette v. Shulman , 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 a Canadian court upheld an award of $20,000 to a patient who had been given a blood transfusion in order to save her life but against her known wishes . |
| 29 | After six months Miloš made a ceremonial entry into Belgrade to parley with the newly appointed Turkish governor , Marasli , who had been given a mandate by the sultan to make concessions in order to pacify the Serbs . |
| 30 | In Schmidt v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs the plaintiffs were Scientology students who had been given a limited leave to enter the country . |