Example sentences of "have be give an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former heavyweight boxer Eddie Neilsen has been given an absolute discharge after admitting an assault on a prostitute . |
| 2 | Since then Spool Setting has been given an expanded nightshift , resulting in a smoother operation and a reliable twenty four hour despatch service to customers . |
| 3 | Oxford don Hugh Puddephat has been given an official warning by college bigwigs — go easy with the girls [ Loretta read ] . |
| 4 | It has never been seen again , though it has been given an official variable star designation : T Boo¨tis . |
| 5 | The campaign has been given an extra edge as it is one of the many school ‘ constituencies ’ throughout Britain to be featured on the BBC 's Newsround programme . |
| 6 | The gesture was made by Bill Tennant , head of VVL , to Jones , who has been given an extra week by officials at Lancaster Gate to decide whether to appeal against his punishment . |
| 7 | Groups will get a chance to perform in front of the rest of the festival participants in an evening programme which has been given an extra fillip with the inclusion of professionals of the stature of Siobhan Davies Dance Company as well as Dundee Rep Dance Company . |
| 8 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 9 | JEREMY Irons ' latest movie Damage has been given an adults-only rating by American censors . |
| 10 | The campaign to save Oxleas Wood , the ancient woodland in southeast London , from a road-building scheme [ see EDs 70 , 69 , 61 ] has been given an unexpected fillip because the British Road Federation has switched sides and proposed an alternative plan . |
| 11 | Handpainted with leaves and trailing ribbons , this delightful parchment table has been given an antique crackle glaze finish , £245 ; matching balloon-back chair , £115 ; Rubena Grigg , Orchard wallpaper in Buttermilk colourway , £13.50 per roll . |
| 12 | The £750 Heineken Puppy Trophy winner has an average sectional time of 5.26 and usually flies out of the boxes and has been given an ideal trap six draw . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The reception area has been given an open plan look , and located to the side of the banking are several desks which enable staff to have closer contact with their customers . |
| 16 | HSE will doubtless take speedy action to secure in-built improvements to new tackle but what of the aging and battered equipment which has been given an extended life because of the current recession ? |
| 17 | The Audit Commission , which has been given an extended brief to audit all health service facilities under WFP , pursues one-off enquiries usually with a value-for-money focus . |
| 18 | As a result of the decision of the Court of Appeal in R & B Customs Brokers Co Ltd v UDT Finance Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 847 the phrase " deals as a consumer " has been given an extended meaning . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 21 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 22 | He was frequently referred to on radio and television , and in the papers , as the first person to have been given an artificial heart . |
| 23 | He shaped well when fourth behind Tipping Tim at Cheltenham and appears to have been given an ideal build-up . |
| 24 | Once again Saddam Hussein appeared to have been given an 11th-hour chance to stop the slaughter ; once again , the powerful American-led military coalition was crouched , set to pounce . |
| 25 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 26 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 27 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 28 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 29 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 30 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |