Example sentences of "had be given to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 2 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 3 | Charges against him were dropped in May 1988 after a meeting between the Crown Prosecution Service and the force complaints department , because his alleged confession had been given to an officer , Det Sgt James McManus , who was already under investigation in another case . |
| 4 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 5 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 6 | ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial … |
| 7 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
| 8 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 9 | Sir Nicholas Cayzer , whose baronetcy had been given to his father by Lloyd George , was raised to the peerage by Margaret Thatcher in 1982 . |
| 10 | It had all , of course , been a mistake — instructions as to the Rome address had been given to George Barrett and not properly passed on . |
| 11 | The table linen was fashionably pink , but the large octagonal black plates displayed the food wonderfully well and much attention had been given to presentation . |
| 12 | A telephone warning had been given to Portadown telephone exchange in Northern Ireland at 12.20 am , which said that the device was in a white Bedford van parked at Staples Corner . |
| 13 | It is possible a feeling existed that too much attention had been given to development in the western and most populous counties in the District . |
| 14 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 15 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 16 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 17 | It had been given to him , the devil claimed . ’ |
| 18 | But by the end of the 1970s , added impetus — and critical changes of direction — had been given to this expansion . |
| 19 | In the course of the MINSE project , comments had also been made to the effect that , although OICs were able to purchase a microcomputer if there were sufficient funds available , little thought had been given to how these might be applied , or to the staff training needs . |
| 20 | The group based its objection on the assurance that had been given to parliament that the hearing would not be held until the inspectorate was satisfied with the PWR 's safety . |
| 21 | Particular attention had been given to the design of heated support bearings to prevent an increase in their mechanical resistance when the lubricant stiffened with a drop in temperature . |
| 22 | It had been given to us unlabelled . |
| 23 | The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban . |
| 24 | This paper had been given to all councillors by an official of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 25 | Consideration had been given to moving Harriers and Jaguars from Wittering and Coltishall , but the idea has been rejected on cost grounds . |
| 26 | W A Blackburn QC , sitting as deputy judge of the High Court , considered whether notice of the total amount payable had been given to the debtor . |
| 27 | It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel . |
| 28 | Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution . |
| 29 | In 1940 , however , there were many lessons to be learnt , for little thought had been given to major amphibious assault . |
| 30 | With four Merlins now completed using this meticulous rebuilding technique ( and two more under way ) some thought had been given to methods of preserving clean and corroded surfaces alike . |