Example sentences of "who have be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By contrast the most depressing problem is the large number of people who have been sold a new tank set-up and a complete stock of fish virtually simultaneously … |