Example sentences of "[pron] has [been] given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their development has been entrusted to the Countryside Commission , which has been given a grant of £600,000 to set up a co-ordinating committee for each forest . |
| 2 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 3 | The Audit Commission , which has been given an extended brief to audit all health service facilities under WFP , pursues one-off enquiries usually with a value-for-money focus . |
| 4 | Groups will get a chance to perform in front of the rest of the festival participants in an evening programme which has been given an extra fillip with the inclusion of professionals of the stature of Siobhan Davies Dance Company as well as Dundee Rep Dance Company . |
| 5 | HSE will doubtless take speedy action to secure in-built improvements to new tackle but what of the aging and battered equipment which has been given an extended life because of the current recession ? |
| 6 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 7 | Mike , who has been given a car and a house by his new employers , has yet to see his new surroundings , and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown . |
| 8 | The gesture was made by Bill Tennant , head of VVL , to Jones , who has been given an extra week by officials at Lancaster Gate to decide whether to appeal against his punishment . |
| 9 | Since talking to me , she has been given a council house about fifteen miles from her family home , so at last she and Sean can get on with their lives together . |
| 10 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 11 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 12 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 13 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
| 14 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 15 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 16 | It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players . |
| 17 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
| 18 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 19 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
| 20 | So valuable has the dating of tephra become that it has been given a specific name — tephrochronology . |
| 21 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 22 | It has never been seen again , though it has been given an official variable star designation : T Boo¨tis . |