Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] give a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Borg has been given a wild card for this week 's Nice Open and next week 's Monte Carlo Open .
2 Marples has been given a free transfer by manager John Ward , even though he still has a year of his contract to go .
3 To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off .
4 England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam .
5 He 's known as a bit of a smoothie but Nigel Havers has been given a harder edge in his new series , Sleepers , starting next week .
6 The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence .
7 The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence .
8 THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate .
9 A CLEAN sweep at the Treasury , where Norman Lamont has been given a whole new team of ministers .
10 To this end , Ixos has been given a preliminary version of NT already .
11 THREE welfare organisations in West Cumbria have been given a tremendous boost , thanks to the golfers who took part in last year 's Sellafield Pro-Am golf tournament .
12 Experienced Carrick Rangers defender Neil Cummings has been given a free transfer .
13 Neil Kinnock has been giving a major speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool this afternoon .
14 MARK Hateley has been given a long-awaited second chance by England .
15 Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned .
16 Large domestic pots at West Stow had been given a thin coating of day on the outside after they had been fired ; this layer is usually slightly reddened as a result of partial firing ( West 1985 , p. 129 ) .
17 Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP .
18 Winger John Gallacher has been given a free transfer but improved one-year contracts have been offered to talented teenagers Matty Appleby , Alan Neilson and Lee Makel. — FORMER Middlesbrough goalkeeper Kevin Poole will miss Leicester City 's Wembley date with Blackburn Rovers .
19 IMC have been given a free … . ’
20 Sarah Smith has been giving a regular class to stroke victims at the Oak Park Stroke Club in Havant .
21 He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire .
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