Example sentences of "[vb -s] been given a new [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) .
2 Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous .
3 Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job .
4 A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world .
5 In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look .
6 POLICE station cleaner Ted Blight has been given a new job … looking after prisoners in the cells .
7 Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV .
8 The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission .
9 Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election .
10 Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows .
11 Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton .
12 But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University .
13 From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s .
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