Example sentences of "had [been] given [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill had been introduced on May 30 , 1991 , and had been given final House of Commons approval on Nov. 7 . |
| 2 | ( Common safety standards for engineering products had been given final approval by the Council on June 14 . ) |
| 3 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 4 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 5 | In March 1991 Mohammed Shafi Qureshi was appointed as the new state Governor , replacing B. Satya Narain Reddy , the Governor of Uttar Pradesh , who had been given temporary responsibility for Bihar in February following the dismissal of Governor Mohammad Yunus Saleem [ see pp. 38006 ; 38102 ] . |
| 6 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 7 | A statement by the Nigerian presidency on May 17 said that Siyad Barre had been given temporary asylum since no other African state had offered to accept him . |
| 8 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 9 | Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted . |
| 10 | Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material . |
| 11 | Thus , if the ten students had been given additional tuition , however ineffective , it would have appeared to be of benefit . |
| 12 | This was a carefully calculated move , designed to underline the Falangist character of the project of which Arrese had been given exclusive charge , for Valladolid was the cradle of militant Falangism and 4 March was the anniversary of the fusion , in 1934 , of Falange Española and the JONS . |
| 13 | had been given ample opportunity to respond constructively but had palpably failed to do so . |
| 14 | Thus much three-dimensional work was evident in the Art rooms a year later , homework had been given greater emphasis , a tentative start had been made to interdepartmental links with Craft and Needlecraft and the ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level courses were being revised . |
| 15 | News that the Islands ' social workers had been given professional stress therapy astounded the families and their support organisation . |
| 16 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 17 | After warning had been given that poll-tax bills will average £400 ( $780 ) in April , Westminster council announced that residents will have to pay only £176 , down £19 on last year . |
| 18 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 19 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 20 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 21 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 22 | They had been given separate rooms , of course , but liked to gas late into the night , and dress together , and compare clothes and hair and notes . |
| 23 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | He reminded the House that the police had been given forty-eight hours notification of the proposed route : ‘ Honourable members on this side of the House who in this respect are charging him [ Paisley ] with gross civic and social irresponsibility must also charge the police with exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 25 | We also felt that Zephyr had been under pressure due to her immense popularity and had been given little opportunity to show off the gentle side of her nature — in the same way the more extrovert patients had dominated the evening while those of shy and retiring nature had slightly missed out . |
| 26 | He had been given six Loaches , two heavy with eggs . |
| 27 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 28 | Ashrawi had said on Jordan on Nov. 9 that she and her fellow delegates had been given diplomatic protection by the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | One had been given intramuscular ampicillin for a septic cord ; one had had a traumatic caesarean birth ; one had had a difficult birth with vacuum extraction and he also had a ventricular septal defect ; one had a heart murmur ; and one had been premature and in a special care unit with hypotonia and jaundice . |
| 30 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |