Example sentences of "have [adv] been given [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This name has lately been given to a Trident submarine . |
| 2 | He said that the erroneous advice from the IT member of staff was irrelevant because of the advice which Mr Sen had already been given by a solicitor . |
| 3 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 4 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 5 | This number had previously been given to a liaison unit with the R.A.F. contingent in France in early 1940 , and before that to a Bomber Command training unit . |
| 6 | The long term view that is required for mineral exploitation means that planning permissions have generally been given for a working with a long life commonly not less than fifteen years , and , on occasion , up to sixty years . |