Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have [been] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder the Secretary of State has been given a roving brief across Europe . |
| 2 | The European Court of justice has been given the power to fine member states for having failed to comply with a Court judgment . |
| 3 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 4 | 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 . [ … ] |
| 5 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |