Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales . |
| 2 | Professor Peter Warren of the Classics Department has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Society for Cretan Historical Studies . |
| 3 | S. M. Qaim , CChem , FRSC , has been elected a foreign member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Castlemorton Common near Malvern in Worcester , invaded by 20,000 travellers last year , has been declared a no-go area by the Home Secretary . |
| 5 | A WOODEN Darlington church has been declared a no-go area in bad weather . |
| 6 | The Monument to the People 's Heroes , the stone obelisk in the middle of the square where student leaders had their ‘ command centre ’ , has been declared a forbidden zone because it is felt to have been contaminated by the students ' presence . |
| 7 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 8 | Despite agreement some years ago that seven sites around Britain 's coast needed protection , only one — Lundy Island — has been declared a Marine Nature Reserve so far , writes Dr Madeleine Havard , WWF 's Marine Conservation Officer . |
| 9 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 12 | LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington . |
| 13 | Investment analyst Eric de Bellaigue ( above ) , who was with Grenfell & Colegrave and latterly with stockbrokers Panmure Gordon until his retirement in January , has been appointed a non-executive director of the Quarto Group . |
| 14 | Sheila Tindle , 28 , has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke . |
| 15 | The tort has been extended a good deal since Lumley v. Gye and in its modern form its requirements may be summarised as follows . |
| 16 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 20 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |
| 21 | Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations . |
| 22 | Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car . |
| 23 | The base has been made a free port and special economic zone . |
| 24 | ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Airbus has been given a three-year guarantee on that contract . |
| 27 | No wonder the Secretary of State has been given a roving brief across Europe . |
| 28 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
| 29 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 30 | Norman Cole , a partner in Specsaver , which has branches in Stockton and Middlesbrough , has been given a temporary suspension for two years from the British College of Opticians . |