Example sentences of "[been] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | 11.00am — Tony has been given an appointment at the local hospital . |
| 2 | Amnesty has been given Greetings Magazine 's ‘ Best Charity Card of the Year ’ award . |
| 3 | Then earlier this year the group received a reply from another prisoner at Shalla who had been given their letter to Bashir by mistake . |
| 4 | Technology suppliers to the British hotel and restaurant industry say that their products are often under-exploited , because too little thought has been given to what the systems are supposed to achieve and too low a priority is given to staff training . |
| 5 | In previous years the lecture has been given by John McGrath ( 1988 ) , Simon Frith ( 1989 ) and Judith Williamson ( 1990 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 7 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 8 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 9 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 10 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 11 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 12 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 15 | With the overall dimensions I had been given , it worked out easily that there could be three arches along the front to one at the side . |
| 16 | The relative or person who has been given the medical certificate by the doctor must see the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district where the death occurred , in order that the death may be registered . |
| 17 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 18 | There was also the Liverpool-Newcastle service , which in other countries would have been given ‘ InterCity ’ status , and which shared tracks north of Leeds with InterCity trains , but which ran here with older stock , Mark 1 or early Mark 2 , hauled by the heavy and increasingly unreliable 1Co-Col locomotives of Classes 40 or 46 . |
| 19 | The tenants have been given a year 's notice to quit and they face the loss of their livelihood and homes . |
| 20 | Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive . |
| 21 | No convincing answer has been given as to why picnickers only pay £2 . |
| 22 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 23 | In the latter part of the book Richards discusses the reports on the ‘ protocols ’ , the anonymous reports on the anonymous poems or extracts the respondents had been given to read . |
| 24 | ‘ History ’ has been given prominence by the New Historicists , while for some graduate students and younger academics ‘ politics ’ has come to seem , as the Goldsmiths Professor at Oxford lately remarked to me , a kind of vital protein , without which a literary work is fatally impoverished . |
| 25 | When we have given , or been given , a seemingly adequate theoretical account of our processes , then that account may itself need to be understood and analysed in a further , meta-theoretical discourse , and so on . |
| 26 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 27 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 28 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 29 | Jeremy Batty , an 18-year-old off-spinner , has been given a two-year contract by Yorkshire after his first-class debut in the last game of the season against Lancashire at Scarborough when he had match figures of 8 for 193 . |
| 30 | Eurotunnel , which is already in default of its credit agreement with the banks , has in effect been given until the end of the year to settle its differences with the contractors to permit ‘ a viable financing strategy to be put in place ’ . |