Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools have been given greater autonomy and greater exposure to market forces , both of which are significantly altering their information requirements . |
| 2 | These anomalous crustal fragments have been given various names-suspect terrane , allochthonous terrane-but we will use the term displaced terrane ( Note that in this book the spelling ‘ terrane ’ is used to refer to structural units whereas ‘ terrain' is applied in a topographic sense . ) |
| 3 | Sir — Both the government and the opposition parties have been given one clear ringing message by the voters in the election : that environmental issues are of little or no concern to them . |
| 4 | The development of the gardens has been given high priority and there is a large variety of named trees and shrubs . |
| 5 | Administrators have been given greater access to confidential documents , which could facilitate taking legal action against auditors and other advisers . |
| 6 | Employees and contractors have been given preferential treatment and get the total amount applied for . |
| 7 | News that the Islands ' social workers had been given professional stress therapy astounded the families and their support organisation . |
| 8 | The effect of this is that while financial intermediaries have been given greater freedom to broaden the range of financial services they may offer , this relaxation has been compensated for by regulating each individual sector more thoroughly . |
| 9 | Social workers have been given new powers to use force to control troublesome youngsters in care . |
| 10 | At present no other organisations have been given this status . |
| 11 | The activities of building societies and banks have been given prime consideration when assessing the appropriate definition of money and the problem of implementation of monetary control ( Bank of England , Dec. 1984 ) . |
| 12 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
| 13 | The development officers had been given approximate hourly costs ( or costs per visit ) of other home services and had to calculate , using these figures , the existing expenditure on each client . |
| 14 | Ashrawi had said on Jordan on Nov. 9 that she and her fellow delegates had been given diplomatic protection by the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | US electricity generators have been given new limits on the amount of sulphur dioxide they can emit after 1995 . |
| 16 | At lower levels , too , cost-centre managers have been given more flexibility with personnel management providing a greater link between performance and promotion ( Thorpe |
| 17 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 18 | In another incident , patients had been given fake steroid creams , he added . |
| 19 | London Crusaders have been given special permission to field five overseas players per game in the new season . |
| 20 | Even with endoscopic clearance , which should be more thorough , it is often difficult to remove radiologically undetectable , tiny fragments adherent to or embedded in the mucosa and therefore , latterly , patients have been given adjuvant bile acid therapy for an arbitrary three month period . |
| 21 | Welcome back : Cancer patients have been given new hope by the development of a drug to prevent tumours spreading through the body . |
| 22 | The Commission had decided in July 1989 that serious transgressions of EC law had occurred in the allocation of contracts , with Danish interests having been given preferential treatment . |
| 23 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 24 | Mountain bikers have been given greater access to Lancashire 's most impressive countryside with new routes created by the West Pennine Moors Countryside Service . |
| 25 | ‘ School governors have been given increasing responsibility in recent years , but they have n't been adequately prepared and as a result children have n't been properly protected against abuse by teachers , ’ NASWE general secretary Sue Allen told delegates . |
| 26 | In this Special Reference Feature a chronology outlines the key events leading to unification and cross refers to articles in the monthly News Digest section where developments have been given extensive coverage . |
| 27 | Natural scientists have been giving increasing attention to GEC , both nationally and internationally , but many of the questions confronting policymakers and citizens can only be answered through research in the social sciences . |
| 28 | The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government . |
| 29 | Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences . |
| 30 | Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences . |