Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pron] [verb] [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the prints were undated or if they had been given younger dates most experts would probably accept them as have made by Homo , ’ said Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago who has recently analysed casts of the footprints at the invitation of Mary Leakey . |
| 2 | Mrs Grandison chose ham and salad , thinking sadly of the splendid sirloin , for she had decided that it would have been that if she had been given the choice . |
| 3 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 4 | Interviewers must seek out , contact and interview their allotted sub-samples , and once they have been given their tasks they must work relatively independently . |
| 5 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 6 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 7 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 8 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |