Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 2 | We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them . |
| 3 | ‘ Our purpose in coming has been to give people experience and it was always going to be a hard tournament against Brazil and Germany . |
| 4 | A woman who tried to take over Swindon Town Football Club has been giving evidence against the former manager Lou Macari , who 's on trial for tax fraud . |
| 5 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 6 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 7 | The Committee has been given powers to give directions and to perform other duties in relation to the televising of the House . |
| 8 | The most important aspect of this work has been to give women the information they need to choose the method they prefer . |
| 9 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 10 | A week ago her plan had been to give Travis the slip and catch the first flight out . |
| 11 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 12 | Two policemen who helped convict a fraudulent investment consultant have been given certificates of commendation . |
| 13 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 14 | Amnesty has been given Greetings Magazine 's ‘ Best Charity Card of the Year ’ award . |
| 15 | The MSc has been given research rating and priority weighting , which assists students in gaining scholarships from the E.S.R.C . |
| 16 | A man who sexually abused a schoolgirl has been given probation . |
| 17 | It is therefore advisable to delete clause 9.1.6 , or if that fails , at least ensure that it is amended to refer to the distress or execution being levied at the premises ( 5 ) Consider adding the following two provisos : PROVIDED HOWEVER that in the event that this Lease is mortgaged at the time of the proposed re-entry and the Landlord has been given notice of the existence of the mortgage then prior to such re-entry or proceedings therefor the Landlord will serve a notice of such proceedings and proposed re-entry on the mortgagee at the mortgagee 's last known address AND PROVIDED FURTHER that if the Tenant ( being an individual ) becomes bankrupt or ( being a company ) enters into liquidation ( whether compulsory or voluntary save for the purposes of amalgamation or reconstruction of a solvent company ) or has a receiver appointed the Landlord shall not exercise the right of re-entry by virtue of such bankruptcy liquidation or receivership unless neither the Tenant nor its mortgagee shall pay the rent hereinbefore reserved on the days and in the manner provided or there shall be any breach or non-performance or non-observance of any of the other covenants or agreements on the part of the Tenant herein contained |
| 18 | In the first use it is a lifeless , dull word but the second time it is used it is as if the day has been given life to grow and expand . |
| 19 | Let us suppose that some special service has been given priority , such that it ought to have resources allocated to it , the question then is what share it should get . |
| 20 | For many years , no outside organisation had been given permission by the Vietnamese government to establish themselves in their country . |
| 21 | While those in Canada are pushed around , those on the other side of the border have been given permission by Washington to run bingo halls , the only legitimate gambling in the area . |
| 22 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 23 | His father had been given Grágás at fourteen , and had gone with Thorkel Fóstri raiding the tribute-lands . |
| 24 | The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers . |
| 25 | Certain kinds of access have been given priority and fall to the duty of the funding councils , but progression routes from LEA sector provision to more formal qualification-bearing courses are also important . |
| 26 | All colleges in the district have been given posters and leaflets as party time , especially 18th birthdays , are occasions where young people are likely to encounter problems with alcohol consumed outside licensed premises , said Val . |
| 27 | The 47-year-old man has been given nicknames by his disgruntled staff , the tribunal was told . |
| 28 | The new advice centre in Hammond Drive has been given £2,000 by the TSB Foundation towards the cost of a project officer . |
| 29 | A man who was apparently brain damaged during an operation has been given permission to sue for damages … even though the operation took place twenty five years ago . |
| 30 | Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene . |