Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been give a [noun] " 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 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 .
6 ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’
7 He might have been giving an apple to a horse .
8 He could have been giving a traffic broadcast .
9 This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation .
10 Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday .
11 You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT .
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