Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] be given " in BNC.

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1 Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge .
2 If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently .
3 Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife .
4 He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea .
5 Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office .
6 However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota .
7 Some have suffered symptoms so severe that they have been given medication by their doctor .
8 A former member of his Household , reviewing the collapse of the Wales 's marriage , sincerely believes that he would have remained single if he had been given the choice .
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