Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have been give " in BNC.

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1 Er there 's no , no milestones dates er er quoted but these of course have been given
2 We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them .
3 Again no parasites could be found in the blood , but they appeared later , even if a course of quinine had been given in the meantime .
4 I had the strong feeling of help having been given so I clasped my hands and said a prayer , half mentally , half vocally , of thanks to God .
5 A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window .
6 In recent years , a lot of attention has been given to fibre .
7 THE seal of approval has been given to changes at an Essex landfill site even though work has already started without permission .
8 As Kee says , commenting on this address by Eusebius : ‘ Since the beginning of the world it is to Constantine alone that the power of salvation has been given .
9 A great deal of evidence has been given by all the associations concerned , and the Select Committee report was published in January 1989 .
10 Those who know , think it a matter without interest , so that again and again in my enquiries , when some touch of colour has been given illuminating the ways of life among the people who are above the need for help , it has been cut short by a semi-apology : ‘ But that is not what you want to know about ’ …
11 A great deal of publicity has been given to CFCs , not just because they are destroying the stratospheric ozone layer but because many are extremely powerful heat trappers as well .
12 Nevertheless , Griffin et al found in 10% of their patients that oxygen saturation dropped below 90% for longer than a minute even when supplementary oxygen was used and only modest doses of sedative had been given .
13 Certain kinds of access have been given priority and fall to the duty of the funding councils , but progression routes from LEA sector provision to more formal qualification-bearing courses are also important .
14 Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 .
15 Er Mr Curtis opened er the session today er mentioning the the same sort of consideration had been given in York .
16 Not only is it good value for money , it 's clear that a great deal of thought has been given to the virus problem and how to cure it .
17 Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area .
18 No wonder the Secretary of State has been given a roving brief across Europe .
19 The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant .
20 A lot of encouragement has been given in recent years to the idea of increasing one 's roses by making cuttings — almost proposing it seems , that it is a way of avoiding the cost of buying new plants .
21 Objections to such forms of pigeon-holing have been given above .
22 A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business .
23 despite no implied obligation on a landlord to maintain land over which a right of way had been given to a third party there was an obligation in the case where use of property would be impossible in the absence or without that obligation .
24 The European Court of justice has been given the power to fine member states for having failed to comply with a Court judgment .
25 The mountain of footwear has been given to Middlesbrough-based Convoy Aid Romania by a businessman in Bristol .
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