Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] been give " in BNC.
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| 1 | An approach to the examination of social policy has been introduced here that has not been given much explicit attention in relation to the study of specific policies . |
| 2 | It would be rash to make the conclusions of this chapter depend absolutely on exactly the account of certain " if " statements that has now been given or intimated . |
| 3 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
| 4 | There is widespread suspicion that the two firms , along with the rest of the nuclear industry , were appalled by the revelations about operating methods at the power station that had already been given in testimony . |
| 5 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 6 | It operated also with regard to lands and rights that had once been given to God or the saints : the gift could never be withdrawn or diminished without sin . |
| 7 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 8 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 9 | It has good beaches , dramatic scenery and has even been given the royal nod . |
| 10 | It has been a familiar sight at many PFA rallies and smaller fly-ins , and has recently been given a ‘ facia-lift ’ ( sorry ! ) with a full IFR installation and overhauled panel . |
| 11 | The sociology of Freud is built on his analysis of instincts , and has usually been given little serious consideration within sociology precisely because the concept of instinct is thought to be unsociological . |
| 12 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 13 | They had found a small table tucked in between three long ones , and had already been given a jug of iced water , a long loaf , a pot of butter and a plate of olives . |
| 14 | One friend was Randolph Churchill , who had come out to Cairo originally with Layforce and had then been given a job of liaison with the press . |
| 15 | But she was floating , up , away , soaring on the strength of his kiss like a bird who had been caged , tethered too long , and had suddenly been given the flight of freedom . |
| 16 | I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company . |
| 17 | Since his death the workers of the industrial world have experienced ( despite severe dislocations in the 1920s , 1930s and 1970s ) a fairly continuous increase in their material standards of living , a massive expansion of social welfarism and have also been given the right to vote for their own governments in relatively pluralistic political systems with competitive political parties and regular elections . |
| 18 | The results for specific questions are those actually obtained and have not been given to the nearest five per cent . |
| 19 | She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly . |
| 20 | The school librarians who have acquired microcomputers have either produced reports on particular projects and gained part-time access to a microcomputer for that project , but have subsequently been given a microcomputer permanently in the library or , as in the case of St Modan 's High School ( see Examples ) have produced reports on the acquisition of a microcomputer for a range of purposes . |