Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [been] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 2 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 4 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |
| 5 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 6 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 8 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 9 | As to my sign , you 've already been given an important clue . |
| 10 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 11 | for you , I said we worked you know , we 've not been given anything , everything |
| 12 | I 've not been given any instructions ! |
| 13 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 14 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 15 | Erm you know the difficult thing for me is when I 'm working with people who 've actually been given no notice at all , and that 's happening with lots of organizations where on Friday you 're suddenly told you 've got no job , but your pension 's available . |
| 16 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |
| 17 | Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet . |
| 18 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 19 | We have all been given golf tips at some time or other while playing , and some tips do work . |
| 20 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 21 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 22 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 23 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 24 | Some post-colonial examples have already been given , and more appear in Chapter 7 . |
| 25 | Examples of technical failures of mechanical means of soil conservation have already been given in Chapter 5 . |
| 26 | The reasons for the lorry drivers ' strike have already been given . |
| 27 | The Industrial Bank of Japan , the Long Term Credit Bank and the agricultural Norinchukin Bank have already been given permission to establish such subsidiaries . |
| 28 | More of Kuhn 's examples , and others besides , have already been given in Chapter 3 . |
| 29 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 30 | v. Lindley , the facts of which have already been given , two at least of their Lordships considered that if the defendants had used unlawful means — i.e . |