Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] been given " in BNC.

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1 Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture .
2 The programmes of study give greater emphasis to oral communication , to planned cooperative work amongst pupils and to talk as a medium of learning than has perhaps generally been given in the past .
3 May help especially if it has not already been given directly after the birth .
4 The Great Britain scrum-half , who had a minor knee operation recently , has not yet been given the go-ahead by the specialist .
5 The controversial new plant , which has not yet been given an operating licence [ see ED 64 ] , was to have supplied reprocessed plutonium to Japan for a 20-year period .
6 It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together .
7 Many may feel that the ‘ use it or lose it ’ ruck-maul law has not really been given a long enough trial .
8 To avoid ‘ alienating the Arab members of the Gulf alliance , ’ the paper went on , ‘ no indictments have yet been issued against the prime suspects , and the force of Scottish detectives in charge of the criminal investigation into the bombing has not formally been given the new evidence by other elements of the international inquiry team , which includes the FBI , CIA and German and British intelligence [ authors italics ] . ’
9 It was beyond possibility that he could be recognized as a policeman , yet he had not even been given a coquettish smile .
10 We do not have to rely on the verse which embarrasses Yates ( ‘ the Spirit had not yet been given , because Jesus was not yet glorified , ’ John 7:39 ) for this , though that is unambiguous enough .
11 Back at the 18th green the Princess had not yet been given her cue to come out onto the dais where the presentations were to be made .
12 Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given .
13 But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual .
14 She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given .
15 Now the opportunity had once again been given to them , she felt that they must do nothing to jeopardise the future .
16 We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us .
17 If , after a previously unblemished career , you are taken to task , it may be that your superiors ' requirements are unrealistic or that you have not yet been given sufficient time to adjust to the style of the new regime .
18 although they have not yet been given names .
19 If these have not yet been given then maintain those in the flight plan .
20 I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants .
21 They have not always been given appropriate educational and library support .
22 In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another .
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