Example sentences of "had been give [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( Common safety standards for engineering products had been given final approval by the Council on June 14 . )
2 The bill had been introduced on May 30 , 1991 , and had been given final House of Commons approval on Nov. 7 .
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 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 .
6 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 ] .
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 In imagination Mrs. Pridmore followed her daughter as she pedalled vigorously on her way ; bumping down the rough farm track between Mr. Bowlem 's flat fields to Tenpenny Road , past old Mrs. Button 's cottage where , as a child , she had been given rice-cake and home-made lemonade , by Tenpenny Dyke where she still picked cowslips in summer , then a right turn into Chevisham Road and the straight two miles skirting Captain Massey 's land and into Chevisham village .
12 Thus , if the ten students had been given additional tuition , however ineffective , it would have appeared to be of benefit .
13 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 .
14 had been given ample opportunity to respond constructively but had palpably failed to do so .
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 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 .
18 She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately .
19 The development officers had been given approximate hourly costs ( or costs per visit ) of other home services and had to calculate , using these figures , the existing expenditure on each client .
20 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 .
21 The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century .
22 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 .
23 In December 1986 she had had a transient ischaemic attack for which she had been given enteric coated aspirin ( ecotrin 300 mg/day ) .
24 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 .
25 The old program is deleted ( as if a NEW command had been given prior to the LOAD ) and all the dynamic variables are cleared .
26 In another incident , patients had been given fake steroid creams , he added .
27 There was no evidence to suggest that anxious patients who had been given detailed information became more distressed afterwards ( fig 2 ; r=0.18 , p=0.23 ) .
28 For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label .
29 The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system .
30 The head of Cardiff University 's health psychology research unit revealed yesterday that 400 volunteers had been given cold virus nose drops .
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