Example sentences of "[adv] [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 2 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 3 | He had asked for , and eventually been given , a plastic bucket of cold water and a sponge . |
| 4 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 5 | I wonder if this is characteristic of all our homes and whether this is likely to continue , and whether any thought has perhaps been given to using this surplus accommodation for day care facilities ? |
| 6 | Insufficient attention has hitherto been given to the role that can be played by scholarly publication in influencing harmonization . |
| 7 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 8 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 9 | But she was floating , up , away , soaring on the strength of his kiss like a bird who had been caged , tethered too long , and had suddenly been given the flight of freedom . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 11 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 12 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 13 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 14 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 15 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 16 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 17 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 19 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 20 | Rural areas especially are giving concern . |
| 21 | The children — aged between four weeks and six years — had all been given the drug while under intensive care , a report in yesterday 's British Medical Journal revealed . |
| 22 | Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet . |
| 23 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 24 | We have all been given golf tips at some time or other while playing , and some tips do work . |
| 25 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 26 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 27 | Some signal had obviously been given , though Alexandra had not seen it , and now it was plainly time for everyone to turn and talk to their other neighbour . |
| 28 | From the material available for the year 1695 two amounts of money only are given . |
| 29 | Paul Davies-Hale and Dave Long are giving it a miss , but Brace forecasts a good run from first reserve Paul Evans . |
| 30 | The clinical details and follow up of the seven patients in whom the diagnosis was based on cytology alone are given in Table V. This group of patients all followed a clinical course suggestive of malignancy with progressive deterioration and death in two to six months from the time of discharge . |