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 there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but
11 Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet .
15 They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans .
16 We have all been given golf tips at some time or other while playing , and some tips do work .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President .
20 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 .
21 Some post-colonial examples have already been given , and more appear in Chapter 7 .
22 Examples of technical failures of mechanical means of soil conservation have already been given in Chapter 5 .
23 The reasons for the lorry drivers ' strike have already been given .
24 The Industrial Bank of Japan , the Long Term Credit Bank and the agricultural Norinchukin Bank have already been given permission to establish such subsidiaries .
25 More of Kuhn 's examples , and others besides , have already been given in Chapter 3 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The reasons for not dealing with these cases in the previous chapter have already been given .
29 For these reasons and for the reasons which have already been given by Glidewell L.J. , I would dismiss this appeal .
30 The financial allocations for 1992-93 have already been given to member states and plans and programmes are being prepared on a minimum change basis .
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