Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been given [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the manager CastleCourt , Belfast 's best known glass complex , says his building has been given the all-clear following tests . |
| 2 | Locus Computing Corp has been given a grant by the US National Science Foundation to investigate system software optimised for networked portable computers . |
| 3 | Now that Higginbotham has been given the brush off , may I venture to approach you ? |
| 4 | Bootle-born Shirli-Ann Siddall has been given a wildcard entry . |
| 5 | With plans afoot for the redevelopment of part of the Cretan Knossos estate of Sir Arthur Evans , close by his former house the Villa Ariadne , a team from Birmingham University has been given the go-ahead for a new excavation . |
| 6 | But the tawdry image of urban renewal has been given a facelift and can now return , again with all the metaphoric power of seasonal fecundity . |
| 7 | The first one relates to the child who broke into my car , I wo n't call him a child he 's a bloody toerag as far as I 'm concerned , who broke into my car has been given a caution , a bloody caution . |
| 8 | Michaela has been given a minder since the Hacienda . |
| 9 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
| 10 | In the three published surveys of research performance , the department has been given the top ( grade 5 ) rating . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | BELFAST 'S prestigious Castle Court complex has been given the all-clear by experts worried by bizarre glass explosions at modern buildings . |
| 14 | WITH all the talk of recession was n't it great to read that at least one important institution has been given a reprieve . |
| 15 | a splendid initiative and it 's similar to the way in which the district council is now devolving responsibility for public toilets , and I 'm delighted that local government reorganization has been given a bit of stir that districts and county councils to get their acts together . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 18 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 19 | Four giant cranes have been given a lift ten miles down the River Mersey to start a new life working in the Port of Liverpool . |
| 20 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 21 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
| 22 | WHEELCHAIR tennis has been given a boost in the province in the wake of a successful clinic which was staged at the CIYMS club in Belfast . |
| 23 | The quality of service at Darlington town hall has been given a kick-start . |
| 24 | THE RISE and rise of Tranmere Rovers has been given the Saint 's blessing . |
| 25 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 26 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 27 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 28 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 29 | Some authorities have issued broad discussion documents ; others have been rather more prescriptive ( in Croydon , for example , parents have been given a checklist of skills against which to evaluate their children . |
| 30 | Langbaurgh pensioners ' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April . |