Example sentences of "were [adv] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 3 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 4 | His beautiful watercolours of rooms were constantly given huge spreads in the Studio magazine , the most important Arts and Crafts periodical . |
| 5 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 6 | The two divers , Chief Petty Officer Carrington and Petty Officer Grant , were curiously alike , both aged about thirty , of medium height and compact build : both were much given to smiling , a cheerfulness that in no way detracted from their almost daunting aura of competence . |
| 7 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 8 | Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met . |
| 9 | The third major group to be settled were the Burgundians , who were apparently given Sapaudia a year after the grant of Gallia Ulterior to the Alans . |
| 10 | These explanations were only given as answers to direct questions . |
| 11 | The British complained when they were only given a quarter of new EC fishing quotas despite providing sixty per cent of the fishing grounds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We were only given ten on the first day . |
| 14 | The entire box office receipts were normally given to the lucky artiste . |
| 15 | By the eighteenth century salutes were normally given merely by the firing of guns , not by the more humiliating lowering of the flag or striking of sails . |
| 16 | The balance of the enquiries tended to be towards matters over which the department had control , but matters beyond their immediate control , such as the blackout mentioned above , often arose spontaneously and were generally given proper and serious consideration by the Senior Management Team . |
| 17 | It was designed to rid Iran of the remaining elements of the invading force in these sectors ( some having withdrawn of their own accord ) and took the form of powerful punches to which distinctive names were generally given , evocative of important features of Islam 's past . |
| 18 | Further evidence that court musicians played more than one instrument in the Opera is indicated by the posts of the grand hautbois de Roy , such as those of Jean Rousselet and Guillaume de Granville , which were generally given as ‘ hautbois et violon de la chambre du Roy et sa grande Ecurie ’ |
| 19 | The man 's words were somehow given greater importance by his unexpected death , and suddenly Clare felt ashamed . |
| 20 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 21 | His undergraduates were thus given a sense of the progression of medical knowledge , and of how it might develop in the future . |
| 22 | The ownership which the sellers were thus given in the handbags was not , however , reserved to the sellers but was granted to them by those who would otherwise have been the owners , namely the buyers of the leather . |
| 23 | Twelve subjects were individually given a four-consonant sequence and an arbitrary number to count backwards from in threes as fast as they could before they were given the signal . |
| 24 | The Mathematics department felt that their allocation was being eroded as other weightings increased , so they were finally given a weighting of 1.2 . |
| 25 | When tenants were finally given a vote , they all turned down the idea . |
| 26 | When you were finally given this flat in February this year , you must have been over the moon . |
| 27 | At eleven , three hours after they had been ordered to report , they were finally given instructions to board a train . |
| 28 | This works slightly differently from the one Kev 's suggesting , coz we did n't have to go through auctions and all that , we were just given a list of players with their prices , and given 20 million to spend . |
| 29 | These men were just given livelihoods were n't they ? |
| 30 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |