Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 2 | S. M. Qaim , CChem , FRSC , has been elected a foreign member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences . |
| 3 | Professor Peter Warren of the Classics Department has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Society for Cretan Historical Studies . |
| 4 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
| 5 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 6 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
| 7 | FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are so many works of art in the church that it has been declared a museum and is included as such on the official list of Milanese museums . |
| 10 | We are now entering the last decade of our century and of our millennium , which has been declared a ‘ Decade of Evangelism ’ . |
| 11 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A WOODEN Darlington church has been declared a no-go area in bad weather . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | In stark terms , B has been denied a judgment by a tribunal which had agreed that certain issues should be heard by it and upon which it had heard argument . |
| 18 | Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 21 | John Devaux , who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989 , has been appointed a circuit judge . |
| 22 | John Akast , an assistant recorder from the same East Anglian chambers and based in Ipswich , has been appointed a Recorder to the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Alan Armstrong , Senior Professional Technical Officer , has been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order ( MVO ) . |
| 25 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 26 | JIM WELLS , who recently retired as training director of the North West Training Council has been appointed a director of their main board . |
| 27 | Sheila Tindle , 28 , has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke . |
| 28 | Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department . |
| 29 | Mrs Ann M Vinton , the chairman and co-founder of The Reject Shop plc , has been appointed a member of the Covent Garden Market Authority . |
| 30 | LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington . |