Example sentences of "[verb] [be] give [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate .
2 The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence .
3 And we 've just heard that the school has been given a three month reprieve .
4 Airbus has been given a three year guarantee on that contract .
5 A man who strangled his so-called nagging wife has been given an eighteen month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey .
6 Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ?
7 He had only been fifteen and had been given the four-ten , the so-called lady 's gun , which Rufus gathered had rather gone against the grain .
8 Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford .
9 Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford .
10 I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb .
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