Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viewers wishing to help were given the address of AI at the end of the programme : over 1,500 letters were subsequently received at the AI office . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
| 3 | All told , I regard myself as incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity of being Chairman of the National Gallery , and I could n't have enjoyed it more . |
| 4 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 5 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |