Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been given [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 2 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 3 | Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack . |
| 4 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 5 | He had this load of dead-weights working for him , old lasses that should have been given the boot years ago . |
| 6 | Eilish McDermott , QC , appearing for Doherty , submitted ‘ natural justice ’ required that — taking account of the time he spent in jail in the US — Doherty should have been given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 8 | He must have been given the stuff in his food . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 10 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 11 | Dr Enid Starkie would have been given the chance to swat another Mistake in Literature . |
| 12 | Forty-eight hours from now , she thought , staring at her pale reflection in the mirror , Anne Hammond would have been given the miracle of the chance of a new lease of life , while her own future seemed to stretch emptily ahead with nothing but work to fill it . |
| 13 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 14 | Some of them are very good indeed but it is unlikely that they will have been given the opportunity to develop skills in such highly specialised areas as industrial photography , beauty photography or still life . |