Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] have [been] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the three published surveys of research performance , the department has been given the top ( grade 5 ) rating . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The committee has been given a £200 donation from Texaco Britain which was to be used to buy a new drysuit . |
| 6 | The campaign has been given an extra edge as it is one of the many school ‘ constituencies ’ throughout Britain to be featured on the BBC 's Newsround programme . |
| 7 | These would subsequently be tried out and evaluated in the classroom , the teacher having been given a set of possible procedures for doing this . |
| 8 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 9 | Benny did n't know that the three priests who lived in the presbytery had been given the game of Scrabble , which they played every night , and sometimes rang the convent to ask Mother Francis questions like how you spelt quixotic' because Father O'Brien was going to get a triple word score . |
| 10 | The locomotive has been given the identity of the next in the series , the Number 30075 . |
| 11 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 12 | Scandinavia had had even less success in the numerous discussions on a customs union , and the topic had been given no priority in the plans of the Nordic Council . |
| 13 | The land speculators and property developers moved in , and the parish has been given a priority status within the County Structure Plan . |
| 14 | Before investigating a complaint , the commissioner must be satisfied that the complaint has been brought to the notice of the authority , and that the authority has been given a reasonable opportunity to investigate and reply to it . |
| 15 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
| 16 | Both the initial idea and the financial backing came from the Inter-American Commission for Women ( OAS dependency ) and the project has been given no financial assistance from the government itself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The 34-year-old has been given a free transfer after turning down the offer of a new contract . |
| 19 | It 's also remarkable that the public have been given the chance to get into the debate early . |
| 20 | And we 've just heard that the school has been given a three month reprieve . |
| 21 | The new latrine now situated in a quiet corner of the orchard has been given a permanent status ; a shithouse clerk has been appointed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 24 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 25 | By the Petrine commission the pope had been given the power to rule . |
| 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 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 29 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 30 | To further complicate this medical nightmare the hospital was already under scrutiny for a death in which a patient had been given the drug epinephrine instead of vitamin E. It is known that , when epinephrine is given at the same time as digoxin , it can upset heart rhythms . |