Example sentences of "been given [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the ‘ New English ’ settlers who had been given land by the Tudors in a number of plantations . |
| 2 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 3 | The pollution claims have been given credibility by the Colombian health ministry , which has declared a large area around the mind " uninhabitable " because of the accumulation of toxic waste . |
| 4 | Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 , Andrew Lees of Friends of the Earth declared , ‘ I have been given clearance by my Board to seek a judicial review … we are very serious about this issue and are going to go for it . ’ |
| 5 | Paula Bale , the Fijian-born Canterbury winger who played for New Zealand in Suva last weekend and was in the All Blacks ' squad for the RWC Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April , has been given clearance by the NZRFU to represent Fiji — proof , yet again , of what a farcical situation the present haphazard laws on international eligibility place the game . |
| 6 | The new advice centre in Hammond Drive has been given £2,000 by the TSB Foundation towards the cost of a project officer . |
| 7 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 8 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 9 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 10 | For many years , no outside organisation had been given permission by the Vietnamese government to establish themselves in their country . |
| 11 | While those in Canada are pushed around , those on the other side of the border have been given permission by Washington to run bingo halls , the only legitimate gambling in the area . |
| 12 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 13 | The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers . |
| 14 | The opposition groups , ranging from social democrats and liberals to Christians , nationalists and anarchists , had been given permission by the Moscow city council and the USSR Council of Ministers to march after the official parade organized by the trade unions , apparently to pre-empt the holding of a larger unofficial demonstration which might have clashed with the official parade . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth has been given permission by the High Court to pursue a legal case against the government over the level of pesticides in drinking water in the Thames and Anglian regions . |
| 16 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 17 | The students had been given permission by Darlington council to unearth what they hoped would be important medieval remains in Clark 's Yard , Darlington . |
| 18 | Action Harrogate , the campaign to improve standards and attract new business to Harrogate , has been given £1,000 by the Hotels , Guest Houses and Restaurants Association . |
| 19 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 20 | ‘ History ’ has been given prominence by the New Historicists , while for some graduate students and younger academics ‘ politics ’ has come to seem , as the Goldsmiths Professor at Oxford lately remarked to me , a kind of vital protein , without which a literary work is fatally impoverished . |
| 21 | The 47-year-old man has been given nicknames by his disgruntled staff , the tribunal was told . |
| 22 | Despite the problems , there is considerable optimism that most WIPers will , by hook or by crook , have been given contracts by the end of the year . |
| 23 | Some have suffered symptoms so severe that they have been given medication by their doctor . |
| 24 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |
| 25 | ‘ Now Brittany had been given assurances by the present King of England 's father that the Tudors would fight to protect Brittany 's independence . ’ |
| 26 | They 'd been given names by the local people — the Grand Canyon , the Great Wall of China — on account of the strangeness of their formations . |
| 27 | ‘ The increase in Sinn Fein 's fortunes was inevitable given that they had been given resuscitation by Mr Hume , as he always seems to do when their fortunes are low , ’ he said . |
| 28 | During the talks it was reported that the North Korean delegation made it clear to the US team that Kim Jong Il , the 49-year-old son of veteran North Korean President Kim Il Sung , had been given control by his father of the formulation of foreign policy . |
| 29 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
| 30 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |