Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [been] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 2 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles ( 1936 ) amusingly shows a simple bank clerk trying to grasp the potential of the miracle-working powers he has been given , but frames this story within a portentous divine commentary on ‘ that little planet under the sun ’ , occupied by ‘ such silly little creatures , swarming and crawling . ’ |
| 3 | He has been given commerce and tourism . |
| 4 | He has been given time to develop and in a recent interview on TV the trainer was even talking in terms of a possible Grand National victory . |
| 5 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 6 | ‘ Similar offences in the past have received a fortnight 's suspension , but because of the player 's disciplinary record he has been given this long ban , ’ said the committee chairman David Johnson . |
| 7 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 8 | He has been given instructions to this effect . |
| 9 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 10 | Sometimes , however , a customer will complain that he has been given incorrect change . |
| 11 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 12 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 13 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 14 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 15 | Gardiner , the Observer 's architectural critic , knew Epstein , Lady Epstein and their family from the early Fifties and this biography is authorised in that he has been given unprecedented access to family papers , including letters between the artist and Kathleen Garman . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then he invoked opium directly , leaving no doubt as to the limitless power which the drug-user feels he has been given : |
| 18 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
| 19 | What happens is that having to serve on many Cabinet and other committees , anyone other than a top-grade and experienced minister tends to use the brief he has been given . |
| 20 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 21 | Mr McDaid , a medical doctor in Letterkenny , who is TD for Donegal North-East , said : ‘ He deserves the punishment he has been given . |
| 22 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 23 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
| 24 | I 'm a little bit surprised Stone has n't tried to get a bit closer to him although I think he 's been given the job of tracking Agnew who 's more of an attacking midfield player . |
| 25 | I 'm a bit less pissed off about selling Batty now since a ) we did n't loose on Saturday ; b ) Rocky played well ( I bet he 's been given a run in the 1st team and a confidence boost with it ) ; c ) I heard Batty saying things like ‘ he did n't have to sell the club ( rovers ) to me ’ , with no hint of remorse at leaving Leeds . |
| 26 | there 's better news for Oxfordshire 's young tennis champion Tim Henman he 's been given a wild card entry into the Challenger Trophy which starts tomorrow |
| 27 | John Gorman says it 's good value for an international striker and he 's been given great support by the board to go and out and strengthen the side … he thinks Jan will help them in the premier league … , |
| 28 | He 's been given the today in maths . |
| 29 | But he 's not doing the estimates he 's been given and he ca n't afford to throw money away . |
| 30 | He 's been given the award for his role in ending the Cold War , freeing the Eastern Block and resolving regional conflicts . |