Example sentences of "[pron] were give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 2 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly think that it would help you if I were to give it . ’ |
| 4 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
| 5 | I were given the chance . |
| 6 | If I were given my head , which I never am or will be ( for I am impotent . |
| 7 | Originally , all first-born sons were dedicated to God , but monetary gifts later took their place , which were given to the priests . |
| 8 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 9 | The refusal did include policy reasons , but the fundamental aspect was those other problems which were given very considerable investigation . |
| 10 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 11 | This resulted in the accounts to 31 March 1989 , which were given a clean audit report , being materially misleading . |
| 12 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 13 | The photo was one of a group of twenty-eight Rodchenko photographs which were given to the consigner in 1960 by Varvara Rodchenko , the artist 's daughter , and which raised £445,648 in total . |
| 14 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 15 | A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils ( which were given responsibility for housing ) . |
| 16 | ‘ You have some papers , Fagin , ’ said Mr Brownlow quietly , ‘ which were given to you by Monks to look after . ’ |
| 17 | Various detector companies sent donations of gift which were given away at all three fetes . |
| 18 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects , which were given the name pulsars , were in fact rotating neutron stars that were emitting pulses of radio waves because of a complicated interaction between their magnetic fields and surrounding matter . |
| 19 | The expectations and hopes of those people and of many others , which were given life by the excellent judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of the High Court on 30 July , were cruelly dashed by the decision of the major City shareholders that the bank could not be reconstructed . |
| 20 | An underground nuclear test in January 1989 near Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan ) sparked off local protests which were given formal support by the Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet in November . |
| 21 | The flotation went some way to offset criticism of the Nigerian government in a World Bank report , the details of which were given in the Financial Times of March 16 . |
| 22 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 23 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 24 | On Boxing Day , which was really hot , a party of us drove to Riverton and had a good laugh about Riverton Rocks , which were given maximum rating ( 3 stars ) in the Guidebook but turned out to be just rocky outcrops offshore . |
| 25 | My Lord it is pleaded as being a matter of er common practice amongst solicitors in this kind of situation er for such advice to be given and my Lord er if you turn to the folio of their particulars erm which were given I think it 's the final book , what are called the voluntary further and better particulars which in fact were the final particulars er given towards the end of the bundle of documents . |
| 26 | I fear that does not even begin to address our concern the assurances which were given on the last occasion about the Home Secretary 's attitude by the Noble Earl Lord which will no doubt be repeated later this afternoon , will of course hold good only for as long as Mr Howard is Home Secretary . |
| 27 | Among puppies seeking homes are six which were given as festive presents but rescued by the RSPCA when the owners could not cope . |
| 28 | This will result in a narrowing of the range of costs which were given by Touche Ross when it costed four alternative options for single-tier councils . |
| 29 | There 's one final thing , and that is on page fifteen at the bottom , it 's a list of organisations which were given permits for St Michael the Northgate . |
| 30 | One CDP paper suggested the Council visit to Teesside exemplified the aspects of CNAA activity which were giving rise to concern : ‘ while not adducing any evidence which indicates an objective failure of student or employer satisfaction or of academic standards , the report makes serious criticisms of the management of the Polytechnic , based on a cursory inspection and conversations with members of staff ’ . |