Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department . |
| 32 | Mrs Ann M Vinton , the chairman and co-founder of The Reject Shop plc , has been appointed a member of the Covent Garden Market Authority . |
| 33 | LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington . |
| 34 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 35 | Professor Roger Falconer has been appointed an Overseas External Assessor and Advisor to the Hong Kong Research Grants Council . |
| 36 | Sarah Lutyens , head of rights , contracts and special sales , has been appointed an associate director of Pan Macmillan . |
| 37 | Dr David Walker , Chief Inspector of Historic Buildings , has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . |
| 38 | He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant . |
| 39 | John Ward , 33 has been appointed an account director at Yarm-based advertising agency RDW Advertising . |
| 40 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 41 | Education expenditure has been cut a little . |
| 42 | The tort has been extended a good deal since Lumley v. Gye and in its modern form its requirements may be summarised as follows . |
| 43 | Monetary targets have been extended with the narrow money supply target remaining at zero to 4 per cent while the broad money target range has been widened a point on either side to between 3 and 9 per cent . |
| 44 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 45 | It seems necessary for it to have what has been called a ‘ cognitive map ’ in its head ; that is , it would have to have something which conveyed the same information as is conveyed by Figure 10 . |
| 46 | The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime . |
| 47 | Bletchley Park has been called a menagerie , and in the variety and eccentricity of its inhabitants , so it was . |
| 48 | In the post-war period and until the 1970s the content of Marshall 's citizenship — which has been called a ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ — expanded in various ways : the political element in the form of the right to vote and stand for election grew to include participation in the political process through a proliferation of pressure groups ; the civil element was enhanced through anti-discrimination legislation , and the UK 's signature of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 49 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 50 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 51 | In some lesser developed countries , particularly in central and east Africa , it has been called a ‘ bureaucratic bourgeoisie ’ , a term which is discussed below . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | We now live in what has been called a ‘ turbulent environment ’ , which is characterized by increased levels of complexity , interdependence and uncertainty . |
| 54 | This project has been called a DIY design as it is open to certain modifications to suit particular whims . |
| 55 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , has been called a ‘ landmark standard ’ by the ASB . |
| 56 | Sometimes the natural entity theory has been called a ‘ group person ’ theory . |
| 57 | The map of the London Underground , which can be seen inside every train , on all stations , on the back of the London A-Z guide , on tea-cloths on sale at the London Transport Museum , on posters , in diaries and in sundry other places , has been called a model of its kind , a work of art . |
| 58 | What happened was what has been called a ‘ negotiated redefinition ’ on the part of the respectable working class : there was no passive acceptance . |
| 59 | Dent has been called a " chocolate-box village " by some writers who have assumed that the preservation of the village is due to the action of the green welly and Barbour jacket brigade ( 2.4 children called Timon and Amarintha , Range Rover with macramé or tie-dye seatcovers and this year 's Booker Prize winner on the back seat ) , but the fight to prevent the cobbles being ripped up and the narrow bridges widened was led , not by middle-class " off-comed-uns " , but by the Dalesfolk , the farmers , joiners and builders , the ordinary people who cared about their dale . |
| 60 | It has been called a " gut " response . |