Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] give [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales of monastic lands brought in perhaps £800,000 between 1539 and 1547 ; by then two-thirds of these lands had been sold and given away . |
| 2 | But such a massive U-turn — Mr Major has always rejected a public vote — would be seen as giving in to the rebels . |
| 3 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
| 4 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 5 | However , many of these dogs have not complied with other sections of the law , such as neutering , and more than 600 are no longer alive — including over 100 puppies which were conceived before the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force , but which were not allowed to be sold or given away after the legislation was introduced . |
| 6 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 7 | Veronica Shaw of Veronica 's Restaurant , London W2 , will be demonstrating and giving away recipes at the Horticultural Old Hall , Westminster , from April 30-May 3rd , admission £4 . |
| 8 | The Tribunal 's ruling stipulated , however , that the funds could be returned to the Philippines only after a Philippines court had issued a " legally binding verdict " on whether the assets were to be confiscated or given back to their claimants . |
| 9 | Other products and processes pioneered by Vlitos and his team — including the process of turning sugar into alcohol , now widely used in Brazil to power cars , and in Mauritius and Honolulu to light the streets — were sold or given away while T&L persisted with sucralose . |
| 10 | There are many volumes un-numbered and many which were numbered seem to have been lost or given away . |
| 11 | ‘ The existence of such a body is seen as giving more appropriate recognition to the commercial and practical realities of an auditing services market dominated by a small number of large accounting firms . ’ |
| 12 | More importantly , they show how , even in what is regarded as the most basic type of communication , the context that is relevant to the disambiguation of deixis should be seen not as a physical setting that is fixed and given once and for all , but rather as a cognitive space that is actively constructed by participants in the course of the interaction . |
| 13 | Eddie gray got a team together ( most of them have already been mentioned ) of excellant youngsters and virtualy every one of them was sold or given away for f*** all . |