Example sentences of "[be] only given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our course makes no serious attempt to cover all areas that could reasonably come under the electronic publishing umbrella — database publishing , network information services , and ( perhaps more seriously ) CD-ROM publishing techniques are only given passing mentions . |
| 2 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |
| 3 | While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are . |
| 4 | New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work . |
| 5 | It would take a hundred lifetimes merely to skim the surface and , alas , we are only given one . |
| 6 | In organisations people are only given sufficient power to carry out their responsibilities effectively . |
| 7 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 8 | These explanations were only given as answers to direct questions . |
| 9 | The British complained when they were only given a quarter of new EC fishing quotas despite providing sixty per cent of the fishing grounds . |
| 10 | the crews of the cutters did not always see the completed puzzle , and for obvious reasons were only given sufficient information on a need-to-know basis . |
| 11 | We were only given ten on the first day . |
| 12 | . He 's only given you one of those . |
| 13 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 14 | There is no natural landing place , the seas are fierce , and permission to land is only given to groups who are have a suitable boat , and who are well provisioned , capable , and with a proven interest in an outdoor topic . |
| 15 | The following pattern is only given as a guide to what to do , so that you can adapt it to suit your own yarn and jumper pattern , if necessary . |
| 16 | The full amount is only given to people whose income does not exceed £14,200 . |
| 17 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 18 | In all metric measures and their direct phi-based equivalents only the 25th , 50th and 75th percentiles are used , so that attention is only given to the central half of the grain population present . |
| 19 | And that 's quite an achievement because the Gold Star award is only given to five per cent of resorts in the world . |
| 20 | It is strongly advised that this privilege is only given to responsible users — please contact Sema Software Technology Technical Support Department for further advice . |
| 21 | LIFESPAN users have three attempts to logon to LIFESPAN , except the LIFESPAN user , MANAGER , who is only given one attempt . |
| 22 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 23 | Often the encoder is visible ( being within the canonical situation of utterance ) and immediately audible and there takes place a kind of indexical reciprocity whereby the specific quality of a deictic expression is only given by the assignment of the extralinguistic referent . |
| 24 | It made the marketing of Palestinian goods inside Israel subject to a licence that in practice was only given for produce , like olives , which was not produced by Jews in commercial quantities . |
| 25 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 26 | Once upon a time , the title was only given to those with a good handful of letters after their name . |
| 27 | In view of Alain 's remarks on the subject she felt quite honoured , even though she was only given small tasks . |
| 28 | Blacker Miller , still then Foreign Minister [ see above ] , was invited to address the meeting formally ( whereas San Román was only given a private hearing ) , and described the outcome as " adequate " . |
| 29 | The treatment was only given by one of the two physicians participating in the study ( JLJ and CG ) , both with previous experience in the use of heater probe . |