Example sentences of "[pron] are often given " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) Motivate and encourage the directly employed labour force who are often given the less straightforward , more difficult or dirty tasks which have been rejected by labour-only sub-contractors . |
| 2 | Family-trees ( genealogies ) similar to this one are often given in the Bible attesting a line of descent . |
| 3 | In contemporary sociology , particularly in studies of working-class life , we are often given passages which are enclosed in quotation marks . |
| 4 | Two other factors are worth mentioning here because they are often given as reasons for dispersals that could not obviously be justified otherwise . |
| 5 | When pupils complain that they ‘ do n't see the point of doing all these ’ , they are often given a remote justification — ‘ you 'll need it when you buy a carpet ’ . |