Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] have [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'd say to you is , do n't mess up and throw away the opportunity you 've been given , because if you do you 'll only have yourself to blame . |
| 2 | The Business Location Service is extremely grateful for the support it has been given and looks forward to even greater success with its partners in the year ahead . |
| 3 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 4 | They use the money they have been given to buy services from hospitals or community units either in their own districts or elsewhere . |
| 5 | Now he would have to return the money he had been given to put names forward for the vacancies . |
| 6 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 7 | Let us pray that we may never misuse the knowledge and the skills which have been given to us . |
| 8 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 9 | It will seek to make maximum use of the units it has been given for offlining . |
| 10 | All the seats had been taken , but once Myeloski had waved his warrant-card at the ticket-desk they had been given seats . |
| 11 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 12 | Very well , he reasoned , then grog jelly was not too far removed from the mandate he had been given , and no one could object to the addition of a delicious fruit sorbet . |
| 13 | We have organised for every eventuality and the players feel comfortable with the roles they have been given . ’ |
| 14 | Life with Mary Top eventer Mary Thomson describes the work she has been giving her horses . |
| 15 | A record of the companies who have been given this dispensation should be held in order that this may be checked by the auditors . |
| 16 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 17 | The officer in command of Jotan 's escort , whose knowledge of the city was apparently imperfect and who had misunderstood the directions he had been given , had been stripped of his rank , flogged , and turned off . |
| 18 | Following the directions she 'd been given , Shannon came to the theatre stage door a few minutes later . |
| 19 | Mr McDaid , a medical doctor in Letterkenny , who is TD for Donegal North-East , said : ‘ He deserves the punishment he has been given . |
| 20 | The secret is how to listen to this inner voice without which the Holy Ones would not have been able to pass on the messages they had been given . |
| 21 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 22 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 23 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 24 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 25 | ‘ But it is not affecting me to have to do the job I have been given . |
| 26 | But the job he had been given by the Mossad agents , who traded ruthlessly on his love of his sister , was a narcotic to him . |
| 27 | One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given . |
| 28 | So you are therefore paralysed and , hopefully , because of the anaesthetic you 've been given in the form of gas , things like er halothane , er enfluorane Come in . |
| 29 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 30 | They said he was unwilling to show them the evidence he had been given so they could adequately prepare their case for the parents . |