Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have be give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Semi-nomadic tribes live on the fringes of the notorious Empty Quarter desert , where they have been given the task by Sultan Qaboos and the World Wildlife Fund of reintroducing the rare Arabian Oryx ( antelope ) to its natural habitat . |
| 2 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 4 | In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised . |
| 5 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 6 | I am therefore pleased to advise you that you have been given the contract for the delivery of 40 ZX Computex reader printers at £75 per drop , making a total charge of £3000 . |
| 7 | There must also be no opportunity for anyone to claim that you have been given , or are giving , preferential treatment which puts you or others at an advantage , for example , over other organisations who may be tendering for the same work or other colleagues working for the organisation . |
| 8 | It 's really a record simply that you have been given the authority . |
| 9 | I believe that we have been given the right to have dominion over animals . |
| 10 | Indeed , we have good grounds for believing that the information that we have been given is accurate : I know that my Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North would not have read out that list without a solid belief that the property speculators were busy . |
| 11 | a senior consultant in Consultancy Services , Risley , said although feelings generally were a bit mixed , ‘ I feel that we have been given a clearer picture of where AEA is heading although I expect to see a lot more changes before things settle down . ’ |
| 12 | And that would put into that policy the flexibility that we have been given orally today and which Selby and myself and I think Richmondshire I 'm not sure , were were erm seeking for a local plan level determination . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 14 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
| 15 | Some have suffered symptoms so severe that they have been given medication by their doctor . |
| 16 | ‘ I think the most important thing for the residents is that they have been given their dignity back , ’ said the Duchess afterwards . |
| 17 | Of course , you do need to monitor people once they have been given their tasks . |
| 18 | Interviewers must seek out , contact and interview their allotted sub-samples , and once they have been given their tasks they must work relatively independently . |
| 19 | I am disabled with arthritis and I have been given a Singer KE2400 , the green one . |
| 20 | Mr Murray replied , ‘ The Chairman and the Executive Board are backing this campaign and I have been given the ‘ teeth to police ’ the changeover and to deal with transgressors . ’ |
| 21 | IF you have been giving you house plants a summer airing in the garden , it is now time to bring them in again . |
| 22 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 23 | And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs . |
| 24 | However , the buy-in or redemption may be carried out if it is approved by shareholders in general meeting and they have been given details of the offer in the circular . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 26 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 27 | Because we have been given the possibility of sight , it is no surprise when we are inconsolable if we have no eyesight . |
| 28 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 29 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
| 30 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |