Example sentences of "[pron] be given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 2 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 3 | Some of the words listed by Hewitt are in fact just special uses of existing British English words , which are given new meaning within the youth culture : e.g. hard , soff ( soft ) , dread , star , sweet . |
| 4 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |
| 5 | On Boxing Day , which was really hot , a party of us drove to Riverton and had a good laugh about Riverton Rocks , which were given maximum rating ( 3 stars ) in the Guidebook but turned out to be just rocky outcrops offshore . |
| 6 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 7 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 8 | An underground nuclear test in January 1989 near Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan ) sparked off local protests which were given formal support by the Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet in November . |
| 9 | The other area which is given detailed attention in the Protocol is that of responsibility for costs and expenses ; the text comes close to adopting the principles used in the Hague Convention , but practice is rather different . |
| 10 | Here 's Mrs Thatcher molesting the Bible this week in a speech about pollution to a committee of legislators , industrialists and scientists : ‘ Like the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve anything which is given free is rarely valued … ’ |
| 11 | Lash and Urry argue that postmodern culture nevertheless particularly benefits the ‘ service class ’ of senior white collar workers : a group which is given special attention in Chapter 1 . |
| 12 | Equity was not an issue which was given serious consideration . |
| 13 | The media law , which was given final approval by the Senate ( upper house of parliament ) on Aug. 5 , regulated advertising time on state and private television and defined the proportions of Italian , European or other films which could be shown . |
| 14 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 15 | The dolphin received further protection in 1975 , when the District Magistrate of Sukkur made trapping or killing of dolphins illegal under a Criminal Procedure Code , which was given extensive publicity by drums , through radio and newspapers , and by placing posters in key locations . |
| 16 | Italy was a major donor among European countries and Greece announced that it would make available US$70,000,000 for agricultural development , which was given high priority . |
| 17 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 18 | Numerous studies have found that patients who are given adequate information by doctors , nurses and midwives are both more satisfied with their medical care and more compliant . |
| 19 | This exercise is similar , but here you are given polysyllabic words and a tone ; you must draw an appropriate pitch movement between the lines . |
| 20 | However , if you are given advance warning , think about the stay and about the meals you will have to provide . |
| 21 | Unless you are given convincing reasons for not doing so , insist on a reduction |
| 22 | The code protects against misleading or unethical advertising and provides a surety that you are given full , written details of what registration with a particular agency involves . |
| 23 | When you are appointed a chairman of a nationalised industry , you are given clear objectives by your Secretary of State , and you have to see that your immediate colleagues and indeed the whole team are aware of , and are striving to achieve , these objectives . |
| 24 | Here , there 's a genuine meritocracy ; you 're given real authority to deal with clients and it 's much more rewarding . ’ |
| 25 | Well , Bozz at school had some free tickets the music 's usually twot when you 're given free tickets ! |
| 26 | Not that Kimon was the only Athenian statesman who sought to recall Marathon specifically : the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze , begun after Kimon 's death and completed as late as the 430s , may depict the Marathon dead , who numbered just 192 , and who were given heroic honours . |
| 27 | Among the 439 patients who were given para-aortic irradiation , 6 developed secondary gastric carcinoma ( 2.4% 15-year cumulative incidence rate ) , by contrast with no gastric carcinomas in 453 patients not treated with such irradiation . |
| 28 | Tio et al have shown the accuracy of endosonography in the follow up of patients who were given combined intraluminal and external radiotherapy for inoperable oesophageal carcinoma . |
| 29 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 30 | Throughout the dark years , some of the artists and intellectuals , who were given manual jobs for producing unacceptable works of art , met in The Slavia . |