Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 2 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 3 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 4 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 5 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 6 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 7 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 8 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 9 | Sadly , all too often they end up shelling out for mechanical write-offs which have been given a quick paint job and put up for sale at outrageous prices . |
| 10 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 11 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |
| 12 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 13 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 14 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 15 | They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert . |
| 16 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 17 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 18 | In Schmidt v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs the plaintiffs were Scientology students who had been given a limited leave to enter the country . |
| 19 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 20 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 21 | Next-door neighbour Jean Beveridge , who had been given a running commentary by armed police inside her home , revealed the gunman had been daring the police to shoot him . |
| 22 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 23 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 24 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 25 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 26 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 27 | Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril . |
| 28 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 29 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 30 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |