Example sentences of "[been] given a [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 | Meanwhile in other areas of life , even church life , professionalization and training has been given an increasingly high profile . |