Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [been] given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 2 | Gas has also been given favoured status , supposedly to help Britain to meet its modest sulphur reduction targets . |
| 3 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |
| 4 | Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet . |
| 5 | Climbing walls in the past have always been given short change from sports centres and the Sports Council . |
| 6 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 7 | It is understood RUC detectives have now been given significant information about the gang . |
| 8 | gold has always been given special status by most civilisations and is therefore widely accepted ; |