Example sentences of "had be given [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their next meeting instructions had been given for a rendezvous . |
| 2 | no , I 'd voiced my concern and I understood the instruction had been given for the brochures or for that particular part of the brochure to be withdrawn and |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , ‘ domicile ’ had the meaning which that term had been given for the purposes of the application of the Brussels Convention , it must be assimilated to residence . |
| 4 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 5 | The third sister , Ankhsenpaaten , had been given as a child bride to Tutankhaten . |
| 6 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
| 7 | She was sure if she listened hard enough she would be able to hear the creak of the rocking-horse the girl had been given as a Christmas present a month ago . |
| 8 | A second inscription on the opposite side reveals that it had been given as a wedding present to the employer himself in 1838 . |
| 9 | The Test and County Cricket Board 's chief executive Alan Smith said he was satisfied with assurances he had been given about the safety of Graham Gooch 's 16-man squad . |
| 10 | No warning , of course , had been given of the shelling from the ‘ Big Berthas ’ and the public feared that an advance on Paris would soon follow . |
| 11 | I do not know what consideration had been given to a prosecution of the defendants in this case at the time the letter was written . |
| 12 | Charges against him were dropped in May 1988 after a meeting between the Crown Prosecution Service and the force complaints department , because his alleged confession had been given to an officer , Det Sgt James McManus , who was already under investigation in another case . |
| 13 | The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban . |
| 14 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
| 15 | He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name . |
| 16 | With regard to the secondary school curriculum , the Yellow Paper maintained that too much scope had been given to the principle of pupil choice , with the result that many pupils were following unbalanced programmes and not enough pupils were studying science-based and technological subjects . |
| 17 | Little thought had been given to the question of what sort of institutions they were going to be : |
| 18 | The College was itself uneasy about the lack of ‘ coordinated opinion ’ among three engineering boards which had recently visited it , and an Academic Board sub-committee considered that undue emphasis had been given to the question of policy for full-time and sandwich courses , ‘ to the detriment of more important issues involved in the preparation of courses of degree level ’ . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal found that no express authority had been given to the Council by its members , thus negating any factual agency . |
| 20 | Particular attention had been given to the design of heated support bearings to prevent an increase in their mechanical resistance when the lubricant stiffened with a drop in temperature . |
| 21 | However , the communists were now defending an unpopular cause and an impetus had been given to the creation of a south Korean state . |
| 22 | G. Lightheart reported that a television set had been given to the youth club . |
| 23 | G. Lightheart reported that a television set had been given to the youth club . |
| 24 | ‘ We were n't liked at all to begin with , especially by the Children 's Department who resented the fact that a programme aimed at 8 to 14-year-olds had been given to the Drama Group , and not to them . ’ |
| 25 | W A Blackburn QC , sitting as deputy judge of the High Court , considered whether notice of the total amount payable had been given to the debtor . |
| 26 | Notice had been given to the defendant , as if he had himself been the owner of the houses , calling on him to pay the proportion chargeable in respect of them . |
| 27 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 28 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 29 | Bob Millar , the director of strategy , policy and planning , said that until now , too little importance had been given to the role of housing in community care . |
| 30 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |