Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [vb past] [be] give " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Bob Millar , the director of strategy , policy and planning , said that until now , too little importance had been given to the role of housing in community care .
3 With regard to the secondary school curriculum , the Yellow Paper maintained that too much scope had been given to the principle of pupil choice , with the result that many pupils were following unbalanced programmes and not enough pupils were studying science-based and technological subjects .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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