Example sentences of "been [vb pp] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 2 | Charlie could n't remember when he had last been given an order , let alone obeyed one . |
| 3 | You 've been given an invitation to the most magnificent show in the world . |
| 4 | You 've been given an invitation to fall in love . |
| 5 | The controversial new plant , which has not yet been given an operating licence [ see ED 64 ] , was to have supplied reprocessed plutonium to Japan for a 20-year period . |
| 6 | 17 You 've been given an award for your services to natural history . |
| 7 | The University of Reading has been given an award to investigate the relationship between shop property values and rates . |
| 8 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 9 | What is required … is , firstly , that there should be a fair review by the employer of the attendance record and the reasons for it ; and , secondly , appropriate warnings , after the employee has been given an opportunity to make representations . |
| 10 | ‘ I am particularly sad that my mother has not been given an opportunity even to purchase his Military Cross , ’ said Maxwell , who is now a job consultant after being made Britain 's biggest bankrupt , with £400 million debts . |
| 11 | The otter and its haunts are now protected by law too and so this lovely animal has been given an opportunity for a new lease of life . |
| 12 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |
| 13 | The drivers sought a declaration that the ban was invalid arguing , inter alia , that the ban was in breach of natural justice , since they had not been given an opportunity to make representations before the ban was imposed . |
| 14 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 15 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 16 | To help you choose , each property has been given an Enterprise quality grading . |
| 17 | You may , for example , have been given an assignment to do on the organisation of a business . |
| 18 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 19 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 20 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 21 | For the first time in his life Stan had been given an objective . |
| 22 | Erm we 've been given an allocation er in this er in these alterations of twenty five hectares . |
| 23 | The club has been given an allocation of 17,800 by the Football Association , and after season ticket holders and club commitments there will be about 12,000 tickets left for Gold Card holders who have collected the three vouchers at the home games against Ipswich , Plymouth and Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 25 | 11.00am — Tony has been given an appointment at the local hospital . |
| 26 | ( 12 August 1773 ) Later , having been given an extension to his leave by Colloredo , who was himself in Vienna in August , he again wrote : |
| 27 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 28 | It was in here , on the north side of the Kremlin , that Myeloski had been given an office . |
| 29 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 30 | Gazza has been given an insight into Maradona 's mad , mad world in Naples by Lazio team-mate Luigi Corimo , who was his understudy at Napoli . |