Example sentences of "had be given [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told he had been given every opportunity to pay , and was jailed for 32 days . |
| 2 | Compelled , absolved , she had been given no choice . |
| 3 | Sullivan later claimed that he had been given no instructions on this point . |
| 4 | Lord Derby complained that he had been given no warnings . |
| 5 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
| 6 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 7 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 8 | Laura had been given no time to mourn the collapse of her brief marriage . |
| 9 | Scandinavia had had even less success in the numerous discussions on a customs union , and the topic had been given no priority in the plans of the Nordic Council . |
| 10 | He said that he had been given no information about the departure and even late yesterday , had been unable to reach government officials responsible for refugee matters . |
| 11 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 12 | He had been given a name . |
| 13 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 14 | She had been given a chance of survival . |
| 15 | It would have helped him if the two most awkward customers in the political equation — Sinn Fein and the DUP — had been given a drubbing by the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists respectively . |
| 16 | That town had been given a face-lift . |
| 17 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 18 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 19 | Then the Bank revealed that its governor had been given a 17% salary rise last year . |
| 20 | Earlier in 1959 , Yulo Tsering had been given a life sentence for taking part in the Tibetan revolution of that year . |
| 21 | Nothing had happened , he had been given a warning , that was all . |
| 22 | Sinclair did buy the Observer and the Pall Mall in the end , but not before he had been given a $45,000 guarantee from party funds . |
| 23 | On the back seat … a fourteen-year-old boy from Milton Keynes , who just the day before had been given a supervision order after being convicted for burglary , armed robbery and car theft . |
| 24 | The bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty had been given a second reading on May 21 [ see p. 38931 ] but its further consideration had been suspended on June 3 in the light of the negative Danish referendum vote on ratification [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 25 | I have had difficult cases , like the woman who had been given a Caesarean operation : giving birth after that kind of operation is very delicate , but it turned out all right . |
| 26 | Upstairs the old house seemed to be on a multitude of different levels , with steps up and down , unexpected recesses and windows , all of which had been given a character of their own , by a carefully chosen ornament or floral arrangement . |
| 27 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 28 | Jonathan described to the court how in August 1991 he had been given a blackcurrant drink made by Allitt . |
| 29 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 30 | After all , she had been given a brain to think with while these patriots were being force-fed The Thoughts of Spiro Agnew , The World According to William F. Buckley and Killing Commies for God and Country . |