Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have told him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Academy Club drinking school run by Oofy Prosser and Stephen Hargrave , in recognition of his services to literature . |
| 2 | Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Pickering of the Department of Anatomy has been elected an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences . |
| 3 | Much of the Levels has been declared an " environmentally-sensitive area " , and there are a number of sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) . |
| 4 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 5 | Professor Roger Falconer has been appointed an Overseas External Assessor and Advisor to the Hong Kong Research Grants Council . |
| 6 | Sarah Lutyens , head of rights , contracts and special sales , has been appointed an associate director of Pan Macmillan . |
| 7 | Dr David Walker , Chief Inspector of Historic Buildings , has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . |
| 8 | He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant . |
| 9 | John Ward , 33 has been appointed an account director at Yarm-based advertising agency RDW Advertising . |
| 10 | On overseas government expenditure Attlee fought a campaign with what has been called an ‘ impressive ’ ’ Little Englander' pragmatism' which , however , ran against the rocks of Bevin and the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 11 | However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France . |
| 12 | In these marriages , work becomes what has been called an ‘ acceptable mistress ’ . |
| 13 | Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap . |
| 14 | The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has been called an Aladdin 's Cave of treasures . |
| 15 | So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk . |
| 16 | Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University . |
| 17 | While John Thaw is made a CBE Olympic oarsman and President of Oxford University rowing club Matthew Pinsent , who won gold in Barcelona in the coxless pairs , has been made an MBE . |
| 18 | 11.00am — Tony has been given an appointment at the local hospital . |
| 19 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 20 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 21 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 22 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 23 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 24 | To help you choose , each property has been given an Enterprise quality grading . |
| 25 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 26 | What is required … is , firstly , that there should be a fair review by the employer of the attendance record and the reasons for it ; and , secondly , appropriate warnings , after the employee has been given an opportunity to make representations . |
| 27 | The gesture was made by Bill Tennant , head of VVL , to Jones , who has been given an extra week by officials at Lancaster Gate to decide whether to appeal against his punishment . |
| 28 | The otter and its haunts are now protected by law too and so this lovely animal has been given an opportunity for a new lease of life . |
| 29 | JEREMY Irons ' latest movie Damage has been given an adults-only rating by American censors . |
| 30 | Gazza has been given an insight into Maradona 's mad , mad world in Naples by Lazio team-mate Luigi Corimo , who was his understudy at Napoli . |