Example sentences of "had [been] given [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The commission for a new tomb for the philosopher , to replace the simple stone that marks his grave on the Catalan coast , had been given to the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in 1989 by the Arbeitskreis Selbständiger Kulturinstitut and was to be financed to the tune of DM1 million by the German Foreign Ministry . |
| 4 | The essential point , moreover , is that the ‘ Hooligan ’ style was recognisable to their contemporaries ( and presumably to themselves ) as a distinctive mode of attire , thus helping to form the feeling which was struggling to give itself expression in other areas , that too much freedom and affluence had been given to the working class at the turn of the century . |
| 5 | Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution . |
| 6 | Deputy Central Office agent Peter Smith said thousands of leaflets had been given to the Royal Mail in time to be sent out but were not delivered . |
| 7 | The old royal library had been given to the British Museum by George II in 1757 . |
| 8 | The gastric mucosa was inspected 0 and 180 minutes after ethanol had been given at the macroscopic , light , and scanning electron microscopic level . |
| 9 | No reason had been given by the male caller who claimed to have planted the ‘ bombs ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |