Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] give " 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 | Insufficient attention has hitherto been given to the role that can be played by scholarly publication in influencing harmonization . |
| 3 | Although due emphasis has rightly been given to the quality of the care , the first priority is the provision of sufficient places in residential establishments . |
| 4 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 6 | I wonder if this is characteristic of all our homes and whether this is likely to continue , and whether any thought has perhaps been given to using this surplus accommodation for day care facilities ? |
| 7 | The spiritual successor to the Jaguar E-type has finally been given the go-ahead . |
| 8 | Now pressures are such that consent has finally been given for the southern by-pass , a scheme first proposed in 1916 . |
| 9 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 10 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 11 | The living room , originally furnished in rusty browns , has just been given a brighter look with soft peach paper and multi-striped curtains by Designers Guild . |
| 12 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 13 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 14 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 15 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 16 | This name has lately been given to a Trident submarine . |
| 17 | Had he shown himself unambiguously ready to start pulling out , the coalition would have surely had to offer him something , if not to save his face , at least to cover his backside : an American commitment to talk about any Middle Eastern issue whatsoever has already been given ; the call for Iraqi reparations could still be waived . |
| 18 | An account has already been given of the proprietary and contractual disabilities of married women at Common Law and the creation by the Court of Chancery of an equitable separate estate which a married woman could freely deal with and bind by her contracts , so far as no restraint on anticipation had been imposed , and which , in any case , she could dispose of by will . |
| 19 | The manna has already been given . |
| 20 | One example of a retrospective connection has already been given . |
| 21 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 22 | An example of the success rates obtained for ordering decimals not in context has already been given on p.50 for an item used in the reference test GT4 . |
| 23 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 24 | They may relate new information to what has already been given in terms of causes ( so , consequently , because , for this reason ) or in time ( formerly , then , in the end , next ) or they may indicate a new departure or a summary ( by the way , well , to sum up , anyway ) . |
| 25 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 26 | Will the right hon. Gentleman stop juggling and manipulating figures and pretending that large-scale assistance has already been given to Lanarkshire ? |
| 27 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 28 | An example has already been given in the anecdote of Charles II on page 95 . |
| 29 | He has already been given ! |
| 30 | Then , the gift has already been given , and God has not withdrawn it . |