Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 2 | Dr David Walker , Chief Inspector of Historic Buildings , has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . |
| 3 | John Ward , 33 has been appointed an account director at Yarm-based advertising agency RDW Advertising . |
| 4 | Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap . |
| 5 | So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk . |
| 6 | While John Thaw is made a CBE Olympic oarsman and President of Oxford University rowing club Matthew Pinsent , who won gold in Barcelona in the coxless pairs , has been made an MBE . |
| 7 | The University of Reading has been given an award to investigate the relationship between shop property values and rates . |
| 8 | To help you choose , each property has been given an Enterprise quality grading . |
| 9 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 10 | What is required … is , firstly , that there should be a fair review by the employer of the attendance record and the reasons for it ; and , secondly , appropriate warnings , after the employee has been given an opportunity to make representations . |
| 11 | The otter and its haunts are now protected by law too and so this lovely animal has been given an opportunity for a new lease of life . |
| 12 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 13 | 11.00am — Tony has been given an appointment at the local hospital . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The club has been given an allocation of 17,800 by the Football Association , and after season ticket holders and club commitments there will be about 12,000 tickets left for Gold Card holders who have collected the three vouchers at the home games against Ipswich , Plymouth and Middlesbrough . |
| 16 | Although it has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , several things blot the landscape . |
| 17 | A popular area for walkers , Blackdown Hills in South Devon and Somerset , has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty by the Countryside Commission ( CC ) . |
| 18 | The ticket office , which has been branded an eyesore , was opened as a temporary measure over a year ago in preparation for the station 's £1m refurbishment . |
| 19 | The North View Engineering Works , in Harris Street , has been branded an eyesore which has become home to rats who scavenge in nearby houses making life misery for neighbours . |
| 20 | And then it will bias the market : anyone who wants to get into the Polish market will have to persuade a company that has been assigned an import quota to act as its channel . ’ |
| 21 | A registered or occasional student who has been granted an intermission in his studies or leave of absence from his studies shall not be required to enrol for the period of intermission or leave . |
| 22 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 23 | The governing body that controls Castlemorton , and which this year has been granted an exclusion order , says the ban also covers sites like British 2nCamp . |
| 24 | For the last forty years population growth has been used an explanation for African famine , allowing us to blame Africans for bringing their poverty upon themselves . |
| 25 | Sally Owen ( Mrs Blenkinsopp ) has been awarded an M. B. A. by Manchester Business School and is now an independent business consultant . |
| 26 | Geoffrey Price FCIT has been awarded an MSc in Transport and Distribution from the University of Salford . |
| 27 | Glenlight Shipping , the company which operates puffers all-over the west coast has been awarded an extension to its tarriff reduction subsidy . |
| 28 | when you read in Police Review that an officer has been awarded an M.A. after post-graduate study , it will probably be in a ‘ safe ’ subject such as business management . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |