Example sentences of "[noun] has [been] give a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |
| 32 | The 34-year-old has been given a free transfer after turning down the offer of a new contract . |
| 33 | Winger John Gallacher has been given a free transfer but improved one-year contracts have been offered to talented teenagers Matty Appleby , Alan Neilson and Lee Makel. — FORMER Middlesbrough goalkeeper Kevin Poole will miss Leicester City 's Wembley date with Blackburn Rovers . |
| 34 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |
| 35 | Literature , usually the major part of English in the grammar schools , has received the most severe overhauling , but because of the current unacceptability to many educators of a ‘ middle-class ’ curriculum for all our pupils , every activity in English has been given a different set of emphases . [ … ] |
| 36 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
| 37 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
| 38 | It is important from the landlord 's point of view to ensure that the centre does not expand where the tenant has been given a fixed service charge percentage , unless provisions are inserted in the lease to countenance this . |
| 39 | The new latrine now situated in a quiet corner of the orchard has been given a permanent status ; a shithouse clerk has been appointed . |
| 40 | A 90-year-old churchgoer has been given a rare honour . |
| 41 | Sarah Smith has been giving a regular class to stroke victims at the Oak Park Stroke Club in Havant . |
| 42 | An unemployed man who caught pike out of season to feed his family has been given a conditional discharge by magistrates . |
| 43 | The idealised view of the British system is that , under a head of State insulated from politics , generally admired , and with long and varied experience , the government of the day is led by a Prime Minister whose party has been given a parliamentary majority by a mature electorate which has participated in free and open elections . |