Example sentences of "[adv] been give [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was floating , up , away , soaring on the strength of his kiss like a bird who had been caged , tethered too long , and had suddenly been given the flight of freedom . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 3 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 4 | The children — aged between four weeks and six years — had all been given the drug while under intensive care , a report in yesterday 's British Medical Journal revealed . |
| 5 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 6 | He felt he had finally been given the spade to bury himself with . |
| 7 | The spiritual successor to the Jaguar E-type has finally been given the go-ahead . |
| 8 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 9 | They had found a small table tucked in between three long ones , and had already been given a jug of iced water , a long loaf , a pot of butter and a plate of olives . |
| 10 | But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless . |
| 11 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 12 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 13 | Since the study by Vawter ( 1972 ) , the old problems of inspiration and inerrancy have largely been given a rest by Catholic theologians ; perhaps for sheer weariness and relief , but perhaps also because from the late 1960s many of them were theologizing in exciting new university contexts and learning the arcane language of philosophical hermeneutics . |
| 14 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 15 | Have you just been given a position of more responsibility ? |
| 16 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 18 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 19 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 21 | I am disappointed that we have still been given no sign that the means necessary to contain violence and to disrupt the command and control structure of the IRA are about to be implemented . |
| 22 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 23 | But these were grassroots reggae music , and ‘ Catch A Fire ’ represents the first time that Marley — or indeed any reggae artist other than Jimmy Cliff — had ever been given the budget that a rock band got to record an LP . |
| 24 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 25 | New Zealand international hooker Duane Mann has also been given a deadline of next week to decide on his new deal . |
| 26 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 27 | The figures have also been given a boost by much lower interest charges as a result of strong cash flow . |
| 28 | Since his death the workers of the industrial world have experienced ( despite severe dislocations in the 1920s , 1930s and 1970s ) a fairly continuous increase in their material standards of living , a massive expansion of social welfarism and have also been given the right to vote for their own governments in relatively pluralistic political systems with competitive political parties and regular elections . |
| 29 | Five years earlier another American finance theorist , Franco Modigliani , had also been given the prize . |
| 30 | The council has also been giving the college a yearly grant of seventy thousand pounds . |