Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 2 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 7 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 12 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |