Example sentences of "[verb] be given [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 2 | It is the first time a former officer has been given permission to write about MI5 since Sir Percy Sillitoe , the post-war head of the service , published his memoirs in 1955 . |
| 3 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 4 | Friends of the Earth has been given permission by the High Court to pursue a legal case against the government over the level of pesticides in drinking water in the Thames and Anglian regions . |
| 5 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 6 | A man who was apparently brain damaged during an operation has been given permission to sue for damages … even though the operation took place twenty five years ago . |
| 7 | There again is the brave Boris Nikolayevich facing up to a murderous convict who has been given work on a building site and is threatening foreman Yeltsin with an axe ; sheer strength of will sends the man packing and the construction team gets the work done on time . |
| 8 | A man who sexually abused a schoolgirl has been given probation . |
| 9 | The new advice centre in Hammond Drive has been given £2,000 by the TSB Foundation towards the cost of a project officer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The nine-year-old has been given 10st 2lb in the John Hughes and will be tackling the National fences for the first time . |
| 12 | He has been given instructions to this effect . |
| 13 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 14 | Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene . |
| 15 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 16 | In the first use it is a lifeless , dull word but the second time it is used it is as if the day has been given life to grow and expand . |
| 17 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 18 | Paula Bale , the Fijian-born Canterbury winger who played for New Zealand in Suva last weekend and was in the All Blacks ' squad for the RWC Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April , has been given clearance by the NZRFU to represent Fiji — proof , yet again , of what a farcical situation the present haphazard laws on international eligibility place the game . |
| 19 | ‘ History ’ has been given prominence by the New Historicists , while for some graduate students and younger academics ‘ politics ’ has come to seem , as the Goldsmiths Professor at Oxford lately remarked to me , a kind of vital protein , without which a literary work is fatally impoverished . |
| 20 | The Committee has been given powers to give directions and to perform other duties in relation to the televising of the House . |
| 21 | In effect the Netherlands Office for Fine Arts has been given powers to approve the sale of a work of art or , if it concerns a potentially important item , to refer the decision to the Minister , who will then be advised by the Heritage Council . |
| 22 | Among the liberal Russian press , Moskovskiye novosti of July 19 commented that " the SC has been given powers which raise it above the government " ; and Kommersant also compared the newly empowered SC to the former communist party politburo , because of its potential power , its secrecy and its non-accountability . |
| 23 | Action Harrogate , the campaign to improve standards and attract new business to Harrogate , has been given £1,000 by the Hotels , Guest Houses and Restaurants Association . |
| 24 | The 47-year-old man has been given nicknames by his disgruntled staff , the tribunal was told . |
| 25 | This has aroused hopes that the Chinese dissident physicist , Mr Fang Lizhi , who has been given sanctuary in the US Embassy in Beijing , might be released under a Chinese guarantee that he will not be arrested . |
| 26 | Despite the RORC 's statement , Michael Peacock has been given dispensation to miss the first trial in Spi Ouest — as his boat will be en route to Britain from the Miami 50ft regatta in March . |
| 27 | Amnesty has been given Greetings Magazine 's ‘ Best Charity Card of the Year ’ award . |
| 28 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |
| 29 | Let us suppose that some special service has been given priority , such that it ought to have resources allocated to it , the question then is what share it should get . |
| 30 | The MSc has been given research rating and priority weighting , which assists students in gaining scholarships from the E.S.R.C . |