Example sentences of "had [adv] been given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 2 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 3 | Proposals by Dr Robert Rentoul for the compulsory sterilization of the unfit had already been given short shrift by the BMA in 1904 , on the grounds that they were contrary to medical ethics . |
| 4 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 5 | He had reportedly been given personal details of Danish citizens abroad who had died and was thought to have used these to obtain false papers ; his source , a Copenhagen city official , had been arrested . |
| 6 | Patients who had initially been given chenodeyxholic acid as dissolution treatment had a significantly lower recurrence rate than those who had been treated , originally , with ursodeoxycholic acid ( 17.8 ( 5.8 ) % at 42 months by LTA compared with 67.1 ( 16.4 ) % ; p<0.05 ) . |
| 7 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |