Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have [been] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then the Bank revealed that its governor had been given a 17% salary rise last year . |
| 3 | Suzy , an obese 3-year-old girl , was failing to lose weight even though her mother had been given a strict diet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the manager CastleCourt , Belfast 's best known glass complex , says his building has been given the all-clear following tests . |
| 6 | Watts and his team have been given the freedom to manage , they have lifted the quality of staff and have improved productivity . |
| 7 | Is my hon. Friend aware that while Derbyshire county council 's policies have led to the redundancies of hundreds of teachers recently , and while Derbyshire is the only county in England to have fewer policemen than 10 years ago , none the less the county council 's job creation priorities have managed to find no fewer than three posts at £40,000 per annum for former Labour councillors and Members of Parliament , the council leader has fitted himself up with a job at an annual equivalent salary of £40,000 , the leader of the Derbyshire Labour party — one David Skinner — has been given a job as a minder to Japanese business men despite being kicked out of the council for corruption 15 years ago , and his wife has been given a job at £23,000 per annum in the council 's bloated publicity department ? |
| 8 | A farmer who 's been fighting for years to KEEP gypsies on his land has been given the go-ahead after a public inquiry . |
| 9 | An unemployed man who caught pike out of season to feed his family has been given a conditional discharge by magistrates . |
| 10 | Our Accountant has been given a copy . |