Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] given [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 2 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 3 | A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 . |
| 4 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 5 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 6 | In March 1991 Mohammed Shafi Qureshi was appointed as the new state Governor , replacing B. Satya Narain Reddy , the Governor of Uttar Pradesh , who had been given temporary responsibility for Bihar in February following the dismissal of Governor Mohammad Yunus Saleem [ see pp. 38006 ; 38102 ] . |
| 7 | There was no evidence to suggest that anxious patients who had been given detailed information became more distressed afterwards ( fig 2 ; r=0.18 , p=0.23 ) . |
| 8 | It would , however , be preferable to have a bile duct free of stones , and Johnson et al recently reported that in such patients initially treated with an endoprosthesis , eight of 10 who had been given ursodeoxycholic acid had cleared their stones within six months compared with only one of 10 not given this bile acid . |
| 9 | The court thus upheld a claim by three men who had been given discretionary sentences for various sex offences . |
| 10 | One had been given intramuscular ampicillin for a septic cord ; one had had a traumatic caesarean birth ; one had had a difficult birth with vacuum extraction and he also had a ventricular septal defect ; one had a heart murmur ; and one had been premature and in a special care unit with hypotonia and jaundice . |
| 11 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 12 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 13 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 14 | They had been given separate rooms , of course , but liked to gas late into the night , and dress together , and compare clothes and hair and notes . |
| 15 | They had been given special permission to land there , only a short distance from the state fairgrounds at Del Mar , where the 13th final will be held this weekend . |
| 16 | ‘ If the prints were undated or if they had been given younger dates most experts would probably accept them as have made by Homo , ’ said Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago who has recently analysed casts of the footprints at the invitation of Mary Leakey . |
| 17 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 18 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 19 | Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material . |
| 20 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 21 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 22 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 23 | He had been given six Loaches , two heavy with eggs . |
| 24 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 25 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 26 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 27 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
| 28 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 29 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 30 | When the Germans , who controlled Tangier through General Franco , demanded Klein 's arrest , Wharton-Tigar in 1943 had spirited Klein out to Gibraltar and from there on to the safety of England where he had been given British citizenship . |