Example sentences of "was [adv] given the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clark owned an estate in Tetbury which was eventually given the name Highgrove by his grandson John Paul Paul . |
| 2 | The duchess was brutally given the chop by the Louis Tussauds waxworks on Blackpool 's Golden Mile . |
| 3 | Love on the Dole ( 1941 ) , with its depiction of the grimness of life for the unemployed in the Salford slums , was finally given the go-ahead . |
| 4 | A member of the Wadesbridge Camels side from the age of 13 , he was finally given the opportunity to play for Redruth in 1982 . |
| 5 | For the first time , the queen mother was not given the chance to show whether she could exercise responsible control or not . |
| 6 | He was not given the 30 months ' notice provided for by his contract . |
| 7 | Luckily for England , Miandad was not given the opportunity to haunt them much longer . |
| 8 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 9 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 10 | Without addition , Bradburn was sure he had taken No. 11 Michael Owen at first slip off Hayes , but was not given the decision . |
| 11 | Apparently this family was not given the information sheet about the programme , and they feel that , had they seen it , they would have refused the test . |
| 12 | I was not given the run of the pavillon and I took it that , since I had not been extended this facility , I was not welcome to it . |
| 13 | Unlike Sartre , Nizan was not given the opportunity to grow old and reflect serenely on his past life . |
| 14 | But although the GTP produced a massive land boom , it was not given the vast land grants of its predecessor , the CPR . |
| 15 | Only John of Ferentino , who acted for Innocent as a notary when subdeacon , was made a cardinal but he was not given the title of chancellor . |
| 16 | so that was not given the go ahead in nineteen eighty seven |
| 17 | He was cleared by the Bow Street stipendiary magistrate in January last year because he was not given the opportunity to say whether he would prefer to give a urine or blood sample when Vine Street police found the intoximeter did not function properly . |
| 18 | ‘ Benefit of doubt ’ : A man who denied illegally overtaking on the A66 trans-Pennine route was yesterday given the ‘ benefit of the doubt ’ by Barnard Castle magistrates and found not guilty of the charge . |
| 19 | The US components divisions would hit the goddamned roof if that proposal was ever given the light of day . |
| 20 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |
| 21 | Although the SDA was strictly a national agency , it was also given the responsibility of managing the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal Project ( GEAR ) , which was then the largest inner-city project in Britain . |
| 22 | He was also given the power to convict on any charge within his jurisdiction , even if another offence was originally specified on the charge sheet . |
| 23 | Whoever became his successor was also given the possibility of sexual satisfaction , and was by that means offered a way out of the conditions of group psychology . |
| 24 | Shortly thereafter he was also given the status of a justice of the Jews . |
| 25 | In appreciation Colbeck received a magnificent loving cup from the Royal Geographical Society , engraved with the course of the Morning , and was also given the Back grant . |
| 26 | Malima was also given the post of vice-chairman of the seven-member Planning Commission , set up to oversee economic affairs during the economic recovery programme . |
| 27 | Solti 's conducting is simply too unstable and volatile to give much satisfaction , showing his inexperience at the time in Wagner ( how sad Knappertsbusch was n't given the assignment ) . |
| 28 | I could n't really see why he was n't given the chance this season ( apart from the last mins vs Swindon ) , |
| 29 | Tony 's brother now wants to know why a jury was n't given the chance to examine the evidence put forward at the compensation hearing . |
| 30 | The court was then given the results of research that had been conducted since the suit was filed in 1987 . |