Example sentences of "[been] given [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
2 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
3 | The Silkience Hair Range , well known for its self-adjusting formula , has been given a completely new look . |
4 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
5 | Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place , would they have reacted differently ? |
6 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
7 | His eyes seemed to fasten on her immediately and Maggie had the irritated feeling that he had been given a very uncomplimentary description of her . |
8 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
9 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
10 | The great difficulty with music-hall and vaudeville , and this is a point of crucial significance to movie historians , is that they have earned or been given a very special place in the popular memory and in social history by those who recall with great fondness those heady pre-1914 days . |
11 | This new science has been given the rather daunting name of psychoneuroimmunology . |
12 | In January 1990 he had been replaced as chairman of the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) by Clayton Yeutter , and had been given the largely ceremonial title of general chairman . |
13 | ‘ So , as I say , this child has been given the most perfect environment possible . |
14 | She had always been given the most unpleasant tasks to perform , punished when she rebelled , as often she did , growing up without knowledge of love or hearing the sound of a kind word . |
15 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |
16 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
17 | Meanwhile in other areas of life , even church life , professionalization and training has been given an increasingly high profile . |