Example sentences of "who have be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant .
2 Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press .
3 Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III .
4 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 ) .
5 Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries .
6 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 .
7 The relative or person who has been given the medical certificate by the doctor must see the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district where the death occurred , in order that the death may be registered .
8 In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist .
9 By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section .
10 In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) .
11 In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) .
12 On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ?
13 Continued tensions led in January 1989 to the establishment of a ‘ special form of administration ’ , in effect direct rule from Moscow , headed by Arkadii Vol'sky , who had been appointed the previous summer to represent the central government in the contested region .
14 That January issue was the ‘ Revolutionary Oz ’ , complete with Quattrocchi on the Russian Revolution ; Widgery on the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara , who had been killed the previous October in the Bolivian jungle , and whose name Widgery and Oz spelt throughout as ‘ Geuvara ’ ; and even John Wilcock , whose ‘ Other scenes ’ reappeared in that issue , put in a piece on Regis Debray .
15 In Schmidt v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs the plaintiffs were Scientology students who had been given a limited leave to enter the country .
16 Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before .
17 Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) .
18 Next-door neighbour Jean Beveridge , who had been given a running commentary by armed police inside her home , revealed the gunman had been daring the police to shoot him .
19 Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid .
20 Nkrumah ( who had been given the Christian name of Francis ) responded readily to this challenge .
21 The French troops were hidden by the folds of ground and by the woods and high crops , but the smoke was evidence enough that thousands of men had closed on Frasnes in the night to support the battalion of French skirmishers who had been baulked the previous evening .
22 She was a dignified octogenarian aristocrat who had been made an honorary Chief-Corporal in the Regiment since she had served with it in World War Two .
23 Gay men who had been shown a stiff cock in a public lavatory by a policeman , and were then promptly arrested for showing an interest , were n't slow to remind us that , thanks to Queen Victoria , lesbianism was not illegal .
24 Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals .
25 Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals .
26 But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games .
27 But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games .
28 In the same way , he has been able to shrug off his failure to retain Frankie Dettori , who had been offered a lucrative sum to ride the Manton horses for the owner .
29 District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers .
30 Erm and those people who have been asked the specific question , Would you pay a premium price for this water as against that which you 're drinking ? said yes .
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