Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been give [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 3 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 4 | Erm you know the difficult thing for me is when I 'm working with people who 've actually been given no notice at all , and that 's happening with lots of organizations where on Friday you 're suddenly told you 've got no job , but your pension 's available . |
| 5 | But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless . |
| 6 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 7 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 8 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 9 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 10 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 11 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 13 | Since the study by Vawter ( 1972 ) , the old problems of inspiration and inerrancy have largely been given a rest by Catholic theologians ; perhaps for sheer weariness and relief , but perhaps also because from the late 1960s many of them were theologizing in exciting new university contexts and learning the arcane language of philosophical hermeneutics . |
| 14 | I am disappointed that we have still been given no sign that the means necessary to contain violence and to disrupt the command and control structure of the IRA are about to be implemented . |
| 15 | The figures have also been given a boost by much lower interest charges as a result of strong cash flow . |
| 16 | Since his death the workers of the industrial world have experienced ( despite severe dislocations in the 1920s , 1930s and 1970s ) a fairly continuous increase in their material standards of living , a massive expansion of social welfarism and have also been given the right to vote for their own governments in relatively pluralistic political systems with competitive political parties and regular elections . |
| 17 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps you have n't been given the opportunity for sufficient consideration . |
| 19 | Q I have recently been given a fish tank which is 24″ × 12″ × 18″ . |
| 20 | Plans for a private marina with 100 properties , to be built beside Poole Harbour , have recently been given the go-ahead . |
| 21 | The school librarians who have acquired microcomputers have either produced reports on particular projects and gained part-time access to a microcomputer for that project , but have subsequently been given a microcomputer permanently in the library or , as in the case of St Modan 's High School ( see Examples ) have produced reports on the acquisition of a microcomputer for a range of purposes . |