Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Brian Pask has been appointed the Contract Sales Representative for the East Midlands and East Anglia . |
2 | Now that Higginbotham has been given the brush off , may I venture to approach you ? |
3 | ICI has been branded a Scrooge after cancelling Christmas parties for pensioners . |
4 | Bootle-born Shirli-Ann Siddall has been given a wildcard entry . |
5 | So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk . |
6 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
7 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
8 | The Adult Basic Education Society ( ABES ) of Pakistan has been awarded the UNESCO Award 1991 for non-formal basic education . |
9 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
10 | Christiani Neilsen and O'Rourke has been given the £60 million contract to build the line 's biggest station at Canary Wharf , creating another 2,000 jobs . |
11 | Former Liverpool City Councillor Tony McVeigh has been awarded the MBE for his services to the North West War Pensions Committee , which serves the needs of war disabled pensioners and war widows . |
12 | Former Liverpool City Councillor Tony McVeigh has been awarded the MBE for his services to the North West War Pensions Committee . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | However , Mrs Falconer has been offered an alternative — the reduced post of lecturer , the job held by Mrs Diack , who would have to make way for her sister . |
15 | The 14 year old from Milton Keynes has been called the boy they ca n't lock up . |
16 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
17 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
18 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
19 | Soviet President Mikael Gorbachov has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
20 | A RESEARCH unit at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham has been given a £130,000 boost by a funding body . |
21 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
22 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
23 | Now Philip McKenna has been told the council is pulling the block from under him . |
24 | * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees |
25 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
26 | Eva had been born the year of the Wall Street crash . |
27 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
28 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
29 | OLYMPIAKOS Piraeus and Atletico Madrid of Spain have been fined a total of almost £100,000 for serious crowd and player trouble during their European Cup Winners ' Cup clash on March 4 . |
30 | Secondly , the SIB has been given the power to designate rules and regulations issued by it in relation to conduct of business , financial resources , client money or unsolicited calls , so that they apply to all authorized persons . |