Example sentences of "have be given [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Heseltine , who has achieved his ambition of heading an enlarged Department of Trade and Industry , has been given as a junior minister Mr Neil Hamilton ( Tatton ) , a Right-winger who is regarded as a keeper of the Thatcherite flame . |
2 | Alone of twentieth-century prime Ministers her name has been given to a political ‘ doctrine ’ and undoubted political style . |
3 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
4 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
5 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
6 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
7 | By 1900 , however , a Far Eastern department had been created and most of the business relating to African questions had been given to a new African department : in other words the administrative subdivisions were adapted to the changing political importance of different parts of the world . |
8 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
9 | Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood . |
10 | Further details of the method have been given in a recent paper . |