Example sentences of "[noun pl] given they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are just carrying out their life in accordance with the rules given them , as all ‘ people ’ including Chewong do . |
| 2 | The tenant should consider deleting both clauses 11.1 and 11.2 though for the reasons given they could perhaps be tolerated if necessary . |
| 3 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 4 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 6 | Professor de Bono , there are well-established scales , particularly in the States , measuring long term stress and anxiety that we can use in rehabilitated patients to demonstrate that not only have the cardiologists given them years , but Doctor Bethell and his team have given them quality . |
| 7 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 8 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 9 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |