Example sentences of "had been given [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early April a figure had been given of 1,108 security personnel deaths since June 1990 , when the breakdown of a year-long ceasefire [ see pp. 37529-30 ] had dashed hopes of a political solution to the Tamil separatist issue . |
| 2 | ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial … |
| 3 | This paper had been given to all councillors by an official of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 4 | In 1940 , however , there were many lessons to be learnt , for little thought had been given to major amphibious assault . |
| 5 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 6 | We were given tasks , but then the tasks had been given to certain people like yourself , starting to want to do the other things , that other people were doing , and then everybody wanted to do instead of doing the tasks that they were set . |
| 7 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 8 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 9 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 10 | But by the end of the 1970s , added impetus — and critical changes of direction — had been given to this expansion . |
| 11 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 12 | The Department of the Environment , announcing the allocations , said priority had been given to those sites which were most badly contaminated . |
| 13 | At the same time , however , some of these weaknesses might have been avoided if more careful attention had been given to commercial needs by those originally responsible for framing the administrative structures of nationalised industries [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
| 14 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 15 | Of their 42 MdBs — all of them as we noted earlier elected from lists — no less than 24 were women , because women had been given on average higher list rankings than men . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking . |
| 17 | The doll had been given in all its naked glory by one of the poorer parishioners , a relic of better days , and McAllister had undertaken to make its trousseau . |
| 18 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 19 | In this particular case it would seem that planning permission had been given after inadequate consideration of publicity . |