Example sentences of "given away " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Smugglers ' Kitchen , above , is being given away because its owner can not sell it . |
| 2 | If the council thinks that you have given away or used up savings in order to qualify for , or increase the amount of your benefit they can treat you as still having those savings . |
| 3 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 4 | The keychain Powerlock , worth £5 , is being given away free of charge with each purchase of 5m/16ft , 8m/26ft and 10m/33ft Powerlock tapes . |
| 5 | Then there is the cost : cellphone equipment is virtually given away with crisp packets and the running cost is only fractionally greater . |
| 6 | As production began to recover somewhat during 1982 , and inflation to fall ( partly because of an improvement in the US economy ) , a less rigorous approach was adopted towards the money supply in the 1982 budget , while £1.3 billion in taxes were prudently ‘ given away ’ . |
| 7 | Because the social structure in the villages was one based on patriarchal families , where the daughter is invariably given away in marriage , and where , because a woman 's chief economic role is as a producer of labour power ( her sons ) she is not considered of any real economic value before she is married . |
| 8 | After several days of dividing their possessions into things they wished to keep and things which could be given away or sold , they were ready to leave the house for the last time . |
| 9 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 10 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 11 | Until now British TV licences were given away free , mostly to firms headed by establishment figures . |
| 12 | Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees . |
| 13 | Property passing on a death is defined in the Finance Act 1894 , as amended by the Finance Act 1969 , and includes : property owned absolutely by the deceased , property given away by the deceased within seven years of death , and property in which the deceased owned a limited interest within seven years of his death . |
| 14 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 15 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 16 | The DLV , who were not involved in the testing , should not have ‘ given away all rights to the South African federation , ’ he added . |
| 17 | But from the moment that the electorate realised it was to be stripped of its Deutschemark , a symbol of nationhood , Germans began to wonder how much else had been given away . |
| 18 | Both had given away vast amounts of top-secret material without their employers being aware . |
| 19 | Please remember when filling in the questionnaire that only about half to two thirds of the newsletters printed go to members ; the others all are given away at clinics , shows , etc. possibly to people who have no idea what NCT is . |
| 20 | The simple truth was that in any case , few such poor families would have had cash that they could have regularly given away . |
| 21 | In the afternoon , with continued mouse-like haste , she sorted out the clothes and objects , some to be kept , some to be thrown away , some to be given away . |
| 22 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 23 | This too had been given away by Brueckner and was surrounded by a German patrol . |
| 24 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 25 | In a square , steel tray at the back of the desk was a notepad , the kind of thing given away by small businesses in an attempt to register their names with the public . |
| 26 | The band contributed an acoustic version of ‘ Give My Love To Kevin ’ to a compilation tape given away with Underground magazine . |
| 27 | The bride , who was given away by her step-father , wore a full-length satin and lace dress with train , embroidered with pearls and sequins , and lace edged veil held in place with pearl headdress . |
| 28 | The company also made records for the ‘ World-echo ’ and ‘ Siemens ’ labels , and they were given away as Christmas presents in giant Christmas crackers made by Mead & Fields Ltd . |
| 29 | A total of is 463 quintals [ 2546 tonnes ] of grain was distributed , and 15 229 items of clothing given away . ’ |
| 30 | With minds on absent players 'Mere started cold and were lucky not to have given away a large margin within the first few minutes . |