Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] has been given " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens if a customer complains that she has been given the wrong change ? |
| 2 | Sharron Davies ' bid to win the 400 metres individual medley title for a record sixth time will be watched with added interest now that she has been given the opportunity to swim the event in Barcelona next month . |
| 3 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 4 | Hence the attention that it has been given here . |
| 5 | So valuable has the dating of tephra become that it has been given a specific name — tephrochronology . |
| 6 | Wembley confirmed tonight that it has been given the go-ahead to make more room for wheelchairs . |
| 7 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 8 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 9 | Sometimes , however , a customer will complain that he has been given incorrect change . |
| 10 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 11 | Gardiner , the Observer 's architectural critic , knew Epstein , Lady Epstein and their family from the early Fifties and this biography is authorised in that he has been given unprecedented access to family papers , including letters between the artist and Kathleen Garman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 14 | In the first place , it will be transferred only if it has been given previously to a candidate of higher preference now elected with a surplus or eliminated . |
| 15 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 16 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 17 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 18 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 19 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
| 20 | It has never been seen again , though it has been given an official variable star designation : T Boo¨tis . |