Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [been] give a " in BNC.

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1 He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) .
2 One approach that has been given a lot of importance is distinctive feature analysis , which is based on the principle that phonemes should be regarded not as independent and indivisible units , but instead as combinations of different features .
3 He 's right , he has the body of a whippet topped by the face of a bulldog that 's been given a severe kicking .
4 Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows .
5 The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission .
6 If an offender , even a very young offender , has been given the benefit and assistance of probation and has been given a community service order , what is the court to do when he comes back again and again and again ?
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