Example sentences of "but [noun prp] be give " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know how it had happened , but Sarah was giving all her maternal love to the wrong child . |
| 2 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 3 | Gloucester was protector , but Buckingham was given an independent satrapy consisting of Wales , the March and three southern English counties . |
| 4 | Gloucester was protector , but Buckingham was given an independent satrapy consisting of Wales , the March and three southern English counties . |
| 5 | But Araminta is given a curious grace of movement and a gift for surprising which , as they owe nothing to the intellect , must have been excessively difficult to achieve . |
| 6 | The times seemed to sanction important films that would be artistic and socially relevant but America was given films made by a self-made showman with artistic and intellectual pretensions and whose thinking was essentially homespun . |