Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But in an exclusive interview with Central South , Kevin Maxwell told our reporter Simon Garrett that his family should at least have been given the chance to buy the medals . |
| 32 | In the past , her pupils would have been shown the way to work this out , given the formula to memorise , and in many cases they would have forgotten it . |
| 33 | I appreciate , Mr. Deputy Speaker , having been given the opportunity to take part in the debate . |
| 34 | For instance , if the directors of the smaller company have had to issue consideration shares at a significant discount to the market price in order to persuade shareholders of the larger company to accept the offer the minority may argue that not only have they been diluted unfairly but also that this has resulted in control passing into the hands of third parties and that they are , effectively , investors in an entirely different company without having been given the opportunity to accept an offer or exercise their rights of challenge under CA 1985 , s430C . |
| 35 | Having been given the opportunity to come together , we did n't intend to let it go . |
| 36 | A third person may resent the waste of money and prefer to have been given a bonus to spend as he wishes . |
| 37 | And I am certain he would love to have been given the chance to impress the NIBA selectors as they prepare to pick the side for next month 's senior championship in Dublin . |
| 38 | He was told he had been given every opportunity to pay , and was jailed for 32 days . |
| 39 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 40 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
| 41 | Laura had been given no time to mourn the collapse of her brief marriage . |
| 42 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 43 | After all , she had been given a brain to think with while these patriots were being force-fed The Thoughts of Spiro Agnew , The World According to William F. Buckley and Killing Commies for God and Country . |
| 44 | Our neighbour , who had been given a key to check on our house while we had been away , had thoughtfully lit a fire to welcome us home . |
| 45 | Ingrid had been given a month to complete her mission , which was as long as it would take the Navy to organise a commando raid . |
| 46 | At this distance it is impossible to tell if Gert could have made more of his early life if he had been given the chance to make use of the ‘ creative ability ’ spotted early on by one of his helpers . |
| 47 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 48 | Mr Finkelstein had been given the contract to paint the interior of the convent . |
| 49 | He had been given the opportunity to resign , but declined , and was then suspended , after which the matter had been reported to the Minister of Health , who subsequently consented to his dismissal . |
| 50 | One of the sellers was Nairn ladies ' guild , who had been given the plate to sell for the guild 's funds , and this was the one I bought at the Bradford Exchange price . |
| 51 | The Thatcher revolution had got into its stride and in June 1987 had been given the right to power ahead in a landslide victory . |
| 52 | By the Petrine commission the pope had been given the power to rule . |
| 53 | At the beginning of August Eurotunnel also announced that Racal had been awarded the contract to supply voice and data communications within the Tunnel in the face of fierce competition from Alcatel , Siemens and other major European Companies . |
| 54 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 55 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 56 | Suppose , for example , you 've been given a problem to work on by one of your teachers . |
| 57 | Yes I 'm afraid I 've come in as a a last minute substitute and I feel as if in the eighty ninth minute I 've been given a penalty to take that could win the match or |
| 58 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 59 | You 've been given an invitation to fall in love . |
| 60 | ‘ People have been given every chance to make payment in full or to make an arrangement to pay , but it seems as though there is a hard core who do not want to pay . ’ |