Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 2 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 3 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
| 4 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
| 5 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 6 | Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% . |
| 7 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 8 | To their creaking and grumbling was added a new note , comparable to music . |
| 9 | He had been to Martin Finkelstein 's bar mitzvah and had been given a small white hat , which was still on his mantelpiece at home . |
| 10 | Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 11 | Yes , Jack had certainly cracked in the pro-am , and had been given a sharp reprimand by the tournament director , Oliver Moreton , no doubt much to the latter 's enjoyment . |
| 12 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 13 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 14 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 15 | The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh , I believe , had a recent £200,000 deficit , but has been awarded a larger grant . |