Example sentences of "had be given [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their next meeting instructions had been given for a rendezvous . |
| 2 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 3 | Members heard funding had been given for a fourth ear , nose and throat surgeon . |
| 4 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
| 5 | She was sure if she listened hard enough she would be able to hear the creak of the rocking-horse the girl had been given as a Christmas present a month ago . |
| 6 | A second inscription on the opposite side reveals that it had been given as a wedding present to the employer himself in 1838 . |
| 7 | The third sister , Ankhsenpaaten , had been given as a child bride to Tutankhaten . |
| 8 | I do not know what consideration had been given to a prosecution of the defendants in this case at the time the letter was written . |
| 9 | despite no implied obligation on a landlord to maintain land over which a right of way had been given to a third party there was an obligation in the case where use of property would be impossible in the absence or without that obligation . |
| 10 | By 1900 , however , a Far Eastern department had been created and most of the business relating to African questions had been given to a new African department : in other words the administrative subdivisions were adapted to the changing political importance of different parts of the world . |
| 11 | Charges against him were dropped in May 1988 after a meeting between the Crown Prosecution Service and the force complaints department , because his alleged confession had been given to an officer , Det Sgt James McManus , who was already under investigation in another case . |
| 12 | Small amounts of heroin , which Kedie said he had been given by a friend , were also found . |
| 13 | The lesson had been given in a lay-by near Kendal on a soaking wet afternoon in February with an audience of coach-trippers on day release from the Satanic Mills . |
| 14 | A plaintiff could proceed by means of the actio iudicati if he wished , although this was available only where the judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 15 | This became for cognitio the standard form of execution where judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 16 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |