Example sentences of "been give [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told he had been given every opportunity to pay , and was jailed for 32 days . |
| 2 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 3 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 4 | ‘ People have been given every chance to make payment in full or to make an arrangement to pay , but it seems as though there is a hard core who do not want to pay . ’ |
| 5 | Then the Bank revealed that its governor had been given a 17% salary rise last year . |
| 6 | Turtle breeding beaches in western Cyprus have been given a breathing space by the decision of the government to freeze development in the area for one year . |
| 7 | The first one relates to the child who broke into my car , I wo n't call him a child he 's a bloody toerag as far as I 'm concerned , who broke into my car has been given a caution , a bloody caution . |
| 8 | Earlier in 1959 , Yulo Tsering had been given a life sentence for taking part in the Tibetan revolution of that year . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 10 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 11 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 12 | It would have helped him if the two most awkward customers in the political equation — Sinn Fein and the DUP — had been given a drubbing by the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists respectively . |
| 13 | A brief review of the appearance of the disease in goats was given : the six premises on which cases were thought to have occurred have been given a choice , after being placed under restriction , of slaughtering their stock receiving ex gratia payments , or remaining restricted . |
| 14 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |
| 15 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 16 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 17 | And er you 've been given a document by the county and you 'll take your own view on that . |
| 18 | Suppose , for example , you 've been given a problem to work on by one of your teachers . |
| 19 | Jonathan described to the court how in August 1991 he had been given a blackcurrant drink made by Allitt . |
| 20 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 21 | However this is a claim made solely on the evaluation of the IBM team and it has n't been given a stamp from the National Computer Security Centre . |
| 22 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 23 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 24 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 25 | The bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty had been given a second reading on May 21 [ see p. 38931 ] but its further consideration had been suspended on June 3 in the light of the negative Danish referendum vote on ratification [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 26 | New Zealand international hooker Duane Mann has also been given a deadline of next week to decide on his new deal . |
| 27 | Gareth Furby 's been given a sneak preview . |
| 28 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 29 | She had been given a telephone number in France : Cassis 08.79.30 , Les Roches Blanches , a hotel . |
| 30 | Nothing had happened , he had been given a warning , that was all . |