Example sentences of "[adv] been give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 2 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 3 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 4 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 5 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 6 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 9 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 10 | Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet . |
| 11 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 12 | Very small constellations have not been given separate maps , and in each case I have added some of the stars in adjacent groups to help in identification . |
| 13 | ‘ We are asking staff who have not been given another location to turn up at their nearest branch , where a desk and computer terminal will be provided for them . ’ |
| 14 | We have still not been given any kind of direct word , we 've not been back in direct communication with them . |
| 15 | She had not been given any choice in the matter . |
| 16 | I 've not been given any instructions ! |
| 17 | There may also be funds in bank or building society accounts but we have not been given any details of these . |
| 18 | But the community health council 's chief officer , Mrs Chris Stead , said the council had still not been given any assurances that the situation was being addressed . |
| 19 | Ukraine participated in a non-voting capacity , since its head of delegation had not been given plenary powers other than to sign agreements on co-operation in meteorology , environmental protection , and electricity production ( Ukraine did not in fact sign these agreements ) . |
| 20 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 21 | The 22-year-old , in a coma since he was injured during the FA Cup semi-final at the Sheffield Wednesday ground on April 15 , 1989 , had not been given artificial help to survive since February 22 . |
| 22 | The plaintiff will still have to make the necessary amendments to his statement of claim and , if he has left it this late to do so , may well find himself in difficulty over costs if the action has to be stood out or adjourned because the defendant has not been given adequate notice . |
| 23 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 24 | Proposals by Dr Robert Rentoul for the compulsory sterilization of the unfit had already been given short shrift by the BMA in 1904 , on the grounds that they were contrary to medical ethics . |
| 25 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 26 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Climbing walls in the past have always been given short change from sports centres and the Sports Council . |
| 29 | gold has always been given special status by most civilisations and is therefore widely accepted ; |
| 30 | Gas has also been given favoured status , supposedly to help Britain to meet its modest sulphur reduction targets . |