Example sentences of "they 're given " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When they 're given a chance to do what they joined the fire brigade for . ’ |
| 3 | So there 's a period of six weeks when they 're given some time to settle in and after that period there 's a review date set where myself , the supervisor , the key worker , the client , the client 's social worker in the community and family or anybody close will be invited . |
| 4 | People will put money on anything if they 're given the opportunity . ’ |
| 5 | Of course the argument runs that until they 're given a run no-one knows quite what they can do . |
| 6 | Meantime they 're given money to buy food . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But if they 're given money for the food … ’ the Substitute was trying vainly to put a bouncing lighter to his cigar . |
| 8 | And cos the the studio is also used regularly for rehearsals for example or as you know if er local amateur company is putting on a show in the studio they 're given the use of the studio a week before the week of the show . |
| 9 | Body repair , and then they 're given minute mediastinal amounts of the essential amino acid which would otherwise poison them , they 're given really tiny amounts of it to keep them healthy . |
| 10 | the er loss of their fertility and the loss of their children and , have sexual problems and problems like that , and they do n't necessarily need H R T they need lots of time , which they 're given . |
| 11 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 12 | The continued power and prosperity of multi-media entrepreneurs like Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell depends on their goods being ‘ entertaining ’ , and ‘ giving the people what they want ’ / ‘ making sure people want what they 're given ’ is not as straightforward a business in this context as it is often presented . |
| 13 | We know the details and the w they 're told the facts when we report it and then they 're given a summons . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes … but then , so will most men if they 're given no other option . |
| 15 | But doctors are now trying to see which drugs do work before they 're given to patients . |
| 16 | We still have a small hard core of football supporters that are willing and able to create trouble if they 're given the chance . |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't necessarily print every detail they 're given , ’ she said . |
| 18 | So these guys undergo these horrifying initiation rituals to prove you know that they want to join the club band and i if they pass the initiation test then they 're joined in and then they 're given a wife . |
| 19 | Right , so given a choice between erm , an average , a guaranteed income of say fifty pounds per hectare right if they 're given a cer a certain , if that fifty pounds is certain every year , alright , they will choose that every time in a , er , well just yes . |
| 20 | You see something like a doctors appointment or a hospital appointment I think deserves and attendance because they 're given er a dental card or yo you 're shown it , you know , they 've given to you |
| 21 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 22 | Yes er a physical assessment er takes place , they 're given er a medical , eyesight , hearing tests and going on from that er er a one day assessment in the actual use of firearms takes place before they are actually selected to er attend a preliminary course of two weeks duration . |
| 23 | No no are you I think this treasure is something they 're gon na get , they 're gon na they 're gon na g come to the stand , they 're gon na a ask a ask a question and and and be given once they 've answered the question they 're given a ball , any sort of ball from sort of |
| 24 | Erm my honourable friend will remember that er under er part two of the Maastricht treaty erm titled to citizenship er article eight er not only are citizens of the union erm given certain powers but they 're given rights conferred by the treaty which should be subject to the duties imposed thereby . |
| 25 | In their orphanges in Russia they 're given just porridge and bread . |
| 26 | And women who are admitted for surgery respond better when they 're given more information . |
| 27 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 28 | They 're given thirty grand |
| 29 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 30 | I mean he 's got plenty of every single bit of papers that they 're given all the time . |