Example sentences of "[vb past] be given [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 2 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 3 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 4 | Erm in short Adam had been given erm lordship over the earth and all its creatures and with that he 'd been given lordship over all human beings and the kings of this earth have inherited that lordship , that dominion . |
| 5 | The companies also profited from a bizarre system whereby shipbuilders who exported were given import quotas for raw sugar , which could be sold at a hefty profit . |
| 6 | The Bologna appeal court in April 1991 quashed the convictions of Mario Tuti and Luciano Franci , who had been given life sentences in December 1986 [ see p. 34956 ] in connection with the 1974 bombing of the Italicus express [ see p. 26820 ] . |
| 7 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |
| 8 | The physicians and the nurses had been given instruction in the principles of psychiatric evaluation and there were regular meetings with a psychiatrist and psychiatric social worker during the trial . |
| 9 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 10 | For many years , no outside organisation had been given permission by the Vietnamese government to establish themselves in their country . |
| 11 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 12 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 13 | The eccentric Cantona jetted hastily back to France after being dropped from the side at QPR , although at the time the club claimed he had been given permission . |
| 14 | But a Birmingham SSD spokeswoman said that , far from absconding , Cattell had been given permission to leave the community home with education to visit her mother . |
| 15 | The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers . |
| 16 | A Thai Army official admitted on Jan. 2 , 1990 , that Myanma soldiers had crossed the Moei river but denied that they had been given permission to do so . |
| 17 | The opposition groups , ranging from social democrats and liberals to Christians , nationalists and anarchists , had been given permission by the Moscow city council and the USSR Council of Ministers to march after the official parade organized by the trade unions , apparently to pre-empt the holding of a larger unofficial demonstration which might have clashed with the official parade . |
| 18 | Reports from the country last night said that Shachar has spoken to Souness , and had been given permission to speak to the player . |
| 19 | The students had been given permission by Darlington council to unearth what they hoped would be important medieval remains in Clark 's Yard , Darlington . |
| 20 | At a meeting soon afterwards , and having laid out its draft proposal for Newton , it had been given permission to go ahead with detailed planning although it did not offer the same safety provisions . |
| 21 | He had dropped the joviality , even dropped as well the slightly secretive air of one who had been given permission to tell , but not all . |
| 22 | Third , the ‘ New English ’ settlers who had been given land by the Tudors in a number of plantations . |
| 23 | Sponsored by the Russian Federation government and staffed largely by defectors from Soviet central television , it had been given air time totalling just over six hours a day on Soviet television 's second channel [ for February 1991 curbs on Radio Russia see p. 38015 ] . |
| 24 | In June 1991 the government made an official protest to the Solomon Islands alleging that the BRA had been given government facilities in Honiara to promote its cause . |
| 25 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 26 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 27 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 28 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 29 | This in turn distressed her , because although she had confessed before Padre Jorge to having told a lie of excuse and had been given penance and absolution for her sin , she was being obliged , in effect , to re-tell the same lie over and over again . |
| 30 | The officers made much of us children : the Marine band played on deck and the captain fired off one of the guns , after we had been given cotton wool to stuff in our ears . |