Example sentences of "[vb past] be given [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 2 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 3 | One lecture I recently attended and very much enjoyed was given by Doctor Norman Vance on the subject of ‘ Moralistic Females and Victorian Discontents ’ . |
| 4 | Treatment had been given for periods ranging from two weeks to over 10 years . |
| 5 | After two months , a settlement of 17 per cent was agreed , but the green light had been given for others to follow on . |
| 6 | When the aircraft took off , at last , with a mere 18 missiles , no clearance had been given for overflights between Tel Aviv and Tehran . |
| 7 | Mr Hamnett , of Hassocks , Sussex , said chocolate penises had been given as Christmas gifts by departmental secretaries during the lunch . |
| 8 | It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel . |
| 9 | A telephone warning had been given to Portadown telephone exchange in Northern Ireland at 12.20 am , which said that the device was in a white Bedford van parked at Staples Corner . |
| 10 | The group based its objection on the assurance that had been given to parliament that the hearing would not be held until the inspectorate was satisfied with the PWR 's safety . |
| 11 | If one sixth of the money invested and lost outside the Empire , in South America alone , for example , had been given to Ireland , there might have continued that cooperation between her and England which provided British history with Burke , Goldsmith , Wellington , Boyle , Roberts , French , Beatty and Carson . |
| 12 | Swod 's name and address had been given to Blanche by a librarian in the Polish Centre in Hammersmith — the one to which Mills had bequeathed a legacy . |
| 13 | The Iranian government had given permission for it to land , the first time that landing rights had been given to US government aircraft in Iran since the revolution of 1979 . |
| 14 | The table linen was fashionably pink , but the large octagonal black plates displayed the food wonderfully well and much attention had been given to presentation . |
| 15 | The bulk of his lands had been given to Gilbert de Clare and , under the terms of the Dictum of Kenilworth , had to be repurchased by Fitzjohn at five times their annual value . |
| 16 | Bill had been given to anti-sermons . |
| 17 | Dr Myerscough told the High Court at Teesside he considered not enough care had been given to Mrs Busuttil when she was first admitted to the maternity hospital three weeks before her delivery date because her general practitioner had detected irregularities in the baby 's heartbeat . |
| 18 | It is possible a feeling existed that too much attention had been given to development in the western and most populous counties in the District . |
| 19 | Yes , and you get all the animals who are experimented on and you sa there 's not a week that comes out and you do n't an a report saying , oh well this this , this causes cancer in rats or and you , imagine the amount , the huge amounts of the sub , whatever substance it is that had been given to rats to cause the cancer , and there 's no knowing that the amount that 's gon na be given to rats causing cancer , will give cancer to humans ! |
| 20 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 21 | The tsar expressed his annoyance by a gesture ; he repudiated the free-port status which had been given to Batum by the Treaty of Berlin . |
| 22 | With four Merlins now completed using this meticulous rebuilding technique ( and two more under way ) some thought had been given to methods of preserving clean and corroded surfaces alike . |
| 23 | It had all , of course , been a mistake — instructions as to the Rome address had been given to George Barrett and not properly passed on . |
| 24 | The letter recalled that a 1,750 million ECU loan in 1985 had been given on condition that the PSBR and inflation be reduced over three years [ see p. 34440 ] and that these terms had not been adhered to . |
| 25 | The law had been given at Mt Sinai . |
| 26 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 27 | Thereupon the applicants , who had been unable to plead justification as defence in the libel action , applied to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) , as the court to whom the implied undertaking had been given by B. , to vary the undertaking to permit B. , who was anxious to co-operate , to disclose to them the authority 's documents in the interests of justice to enable them to plead justification with full particularity and in the expectation that admissible evidence would become available to support the plea at trial of the action . |
| 28 | The move provoked anger in Russia , and confusion ensued as Yeltsin told the Russian Supreme Soviet on March 18 that Kravchuk had reversed his decision and that the original deadline of July 1 would be observed ; NATO officials claimed that identical assurances had been given by Ukraine . |
| 29 | The crew had one last night with their families , and the opportunity to share with them some of the advance they had been given by Yong . |
| 30 | Most of the holly the Pack had to distribute had been given by Anne 's father , who was a greengrocer . |