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 | Moving up the country to Bristol , the Lady Byron Park development in Exmouth has been given an all-American flavour with the apartments and homes named after US cities . |
| 7 | The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence . |
| 8 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 9 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 10 | THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate . |
| 11 | A CLEAN sweep at the Treasury , where Norman Lamont has been given a whole new team of ministers . |
| 12 | To this end , Ixos has been given a preliminary version of NT already . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Experienced Carrick Rangers defender Neil Cummings has been given a free transfer . |
| 15 | Neil Kinnock has been giving a major speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool this afternoon . |
| 16 | MARK Hateley has been given a long-awaited second chance by England . |
| 17 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 18 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 19 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 22 | EFFORTS to revitalise a hard-hit housing estate in Darlington have been given an unexpected financial boost . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | IMC have been given a free … . ’ |
| 25 | Sarah Smith has been giving a regular class to stroke victims at the Oak Park Stroke Club in Havant . |
| 26 | The former heavyweight boxer Eddie Neilsen has been given an absolute discharge after admitting an assault on a prostitute . |
| 27 | Oxford don Hugh Puddephat has been given an official warning by college bigwigs — go easy with the girls [ Loretta read ] . |
| 28 | 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 . |