Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 2 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 3 | The caller also was extremely annoyed that calls relating to valuation matters were being passed to her but Media Action had been given no alternative numbers to filter these calls to . |
| 4 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 5 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 6 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 7 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 8 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 9 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 10 | England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam . |
| 11 | Tom DeMoss joined the project in 1979 ( after the first team had been given the boot ) . |
| 12 | That town had been given a face-lift . |
| 13 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |
| 14 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 15 | , business director of Courtaulds Aerospace in Germany , said it was the first time in the world that a chromate-free coating had been given the go-ahead for civil aircraft manufacture . |
| 16 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 17 | Benny did n't know that the three priests who lived in the presbytery had been given the game of Scrabble , which they played every night , and sometimes rang the convent to ask Mother Francis questions like how you spelt quixotic' because Father O'Brien was going to get a triple word score . |
| 18 | Mr Finkelstein had been given the contract to paint the interior of the convent . |
| 19 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 20 | About half their original sample had been given a second interview four years after the first . |
| 21 | This slimline classic had been given the distinctive dinner suit look with satin lapels and buttons . |
| 22 | I retraced my steps to the square where Kennedy had been given the Freedom of the City ( an empty honour ) , and explored a network of narrow shopping streets . |
| 23 | On Nov. 16 he testified before a parliamentary committee that orders had been given a month previously to freeze " Operation Gladio " . |
| 24 | In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman . |
| 25 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 26 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 27 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 28 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 29 | Scandinavia had had even less success in the numerous discussions on a customs union , and the topic had been given no priority in the plans of the Nordic Council . |
| 30 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |