Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 3 | The living room , originally furnished in rusty browns , has just been given a brighter look with soft peach paper and multi-striped curtains by Designers Guild . |
| 4 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Marxism and Existentialism have exercised the greatest influence upon theology , while in addition the general question of how far theology should permit itself to be influenced by philosophy has also been given a good deal of attention . |
| 9 | New Zealand international hooker Duane Mann has also been given a deadline of next week to decide on his new deal . |
| 10 | It has now been given a £1 million ( $1.7 million ) estimate by Sotheby 's who will be taking it to Japan prior to the sale , although the market for Constable in Japan is not particularly developed . |
| 11 | The Evening Degree in particular has now been given a substantial boost as a result of the University 's successful bid for UFC funding and this means that from 1992–93 , three Arts departments ( History , Film and Media and Politics ) will offer courses in the evenings . |
| 12 | A TEENAGER who slashed £1,500 worth of tyres at a Scarborough garage has now been given a job by his victim . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , this proposal has been so remodelled that , in reality , the old First Division has simply been given a new name . |
| 14 | It has been a familiar sight at many PFA rallies and smaller fly-ins , and has recently been given a ‘ facia-lift ’ ( sorry ! ) with a full IFR installation and overhauled panel . |
| 15 | This little town has recently been given a face-lift , and the white walls gleam attractively in the sun above the narrow pedestrianized streets . |
| 16 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , for a progenitor of such masterpieces as the Stations of the Cross in Westminster , Gill has never been given a retrospective of his sculpture , a void which the Barbican Art Gallery is filling with a collection of over 50 works in stone and related drawings , engravings , and contemporary photographs which reveal the paradoxical creativity of this artist , sensually spiritual and ascetically erotic . |
| 18 | It is true that Beccaria 's classical programme has never been given a full trial ( the image of his public floggings and toiling chain-gangs rather than his denial of capital punishment may help the liberal-minded to feel this less of a loss ) . |
| 19 | Cook has incidentally been given a testimonial season by Transvaal for his outstanding services over a long period . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 22 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 23 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 26 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |