Example sentences of "to have [be] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top chasers have a habit of being able to give weight and a beating to their more humble rivals and although Barnbrook Again appears to have been given a stiff task in conceding 8lb to Rusch de Farges , his two runs already this season should give him the advantage . |
| 2 | Once again Saddam Hussein appeared to have been given an 11th-hour chance to stop the slaughter ; once again , the powerful American-led military coalition was crouched , set to pounce . |
| 3 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 4 | He shaped well when fourth behind Tipping Tim at Cheltenham and appears to have been given an ideal build-up . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Bowie is a close enough friend of Scorsese 's to have been given a storyboard of a fight scene in the director 's Raging Bull ( Bowie loves boxing ) although he intensely disliked Marty 's latest film , the box-office smash Cape Fear . |
| 7 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 8 | Following her husband 's death , she is said to have been given Weston Hall as a Valentine present by her father [ Sitwell , 5 ] . |
| 9 | The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish . |
| 10 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 11 | A third person may resent the waste of money and prefer to have been given a bonus to spend as he wishes . |
| 12 | He was frequently referred to on radio and television , and in the papers , as the first person to have been given an artificial heart . |
| 13 | These he seems to have been given , or as near as made no difference . |
| 14 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 15 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 16 | It is very easy to get involved in discussing whether Olive ought to have been given some knowledge of French wines before George moved , or perhaps persuaded to move to the city along with him . |
| 17 | In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft . |
| 18 | All told , I regard myself as incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity of being Chairman of the National Gallery , and I could n't have enjoyed it more . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’ |
| 20 | In addition , Mrs Jones was dissatisfied that little attention appeared to have been given to Tom 's problems in school . |
| 21 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 22 | The contributors seem to have been given a clear brief to provide just enough context to introduce the paintings themselves , with special emphasis on distinguishing the styles of lesser masters , and many plates showing refreshingly unfamiliar works from recent London auctions , all perhaps with antique collectors in mind . |
| 23 | The licence is given jointly by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Trade , and unless the licence is refused within ninety days it is deemed to have been given . |
| 24 | Conservatives believe revelation to have been given in the past , as do all Christians . |
| 25 | The group seems to have been given only the most broad and general of aims . |
| 26 | An extremely important item , housed in the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna , is the pure silk Hunting carpet , believed to have been given to Emperor Leopold I by Peter the Great . |
| 27 | This attitude to urban dialect seems to have been given further impetus by the view of Wyld ( 1927 ) that urban English can be described as the ‘ Modified Standard ’ of ‘ city vulgarians ’ . |
| 28 | Relatively little thought appears to have been given to developing systematic forms of training in the area of music in worship , and little assessment of the quality of training seems to take place . |
| 29 | Modern science , which is commonly held to have been given its philosophical base by Descartes , has nearly always presupposed precisely this kind of dualistic contrast between objective matter and introspective mind . |
| 30 | I seem to have been given the freedom |