Example sentences of "[being] give [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 2 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 3 | In reaching that last conclusion , however , the members of the court differed in their own reasoning , though all took the view that the interest of society as a whole , public policy , outweighed the prisoner 's interest in being given reasons . |
| 4 | Er well I realize we 're beg being given illustrations , but I do n't think there 's anybody really dissenting apart from Mr , to the inclusion of eleven is there . |
| 5 | Its a mistake , I think , to confuse the gift relationship with mindless material indulgence , for it is only by being given things that anyone ever learns that they have a place in the world . |
| 6 | There were rumours of anger among the grain farmers , who were being given IOUs instead of cash for their crops . |
| 7 | Resellers are being given rebates of $1,000 to $4,000 a hit depending on the System 3000 configuration . |
| 8 | Incentives are considered artificial if the rewarding events would not normally occur as a consequence of the behaviour outside the training situation ( e.g. being given stars or happy faces for getting dressed ) . |
| 9 | ‘ He is being given rations of hay which will slowly be increased and hopefully we can cut down on the drugs . |
| 10 | Fellows from universities who fought in Spain are being given jobs in Intelligence or Censorship where they could do a lot more damage as traitors than a squaddy like I 'd be . |
| 11 | As well as being given presents by her colleagues she was presented , on behalf of the company , with a gold chain and fob by Mike Queen , director ( left ) and Eric Brown , financial controller . |
| 12 | She could tell by the tightening of his lips that he did n't take kindly to being given orders , but he could hardly back down now since he 'd been the one to insist they go to the office . |
| 13 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 14 | Since January 1990 all governing bodies of schools in Denmark have had complete control over school budgets , curricula , staff appointments and day-to-day management — the intention being to give teachers and parents more say in school management . |