Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accounts that were given of first meetings we find that the situation is often important as it is usually mentioned . |
| 2 | She became , for a short while , my personal manager — we did a radio promotion tour around England on the ‘ Andy Warhol ’ single — but I often had the feeling that they were things that were given to Angie to keep her out of David 's way , to occupy her so that he could sort himself out . |
| 3 | ‘ There are probably a great many parks and recreation grounds that were given to local authorities by local benefactors or acquired by public subscription where the wording in the deeds implies that there is a charitable trust . |
| 4 | Here are two exercises that were given to me by ANDY WATSON and TREFOR OWEN , part-time tutors at Leeds College of Music . |
| 5 | A comprehensive report of the actual meteorological conditions must be drawn up and copies of the weather forecast that were given to the crew will be included . |
| 6 | These were introduced into Persia and Anatolia in the late 19th century , but proved to be totally unsuitable for rug yarns , producing rather crude colours that were given to rapid fading . |
| 7 | In this study junctions are divided broadly into two categories depending on the accident estimates that were given to them . |
| 8 | Once you got into the C C Q erm for me it sounded like a string of questions erm I could n't hear any at all or any open questions into any of the answers that were given to you on question . |
| 9 | Oh , I think the story goes on from there , because I do n't think though and this is a personal opinion and I I 'd love the Committee to I do n't know tha that er I M R O ever did get accounts out of Liechtenstein because a year later B I M the m the ownership of it was transferred from Liechtenstein back to England but guess who the the , the owner was transfer to a charitable trust , so we 've got erm a company that is handling the investment management of seven hundred million pounds worth of pension funds which is owned by a charity and the and the accounts that were given to I M R O and these accounts were given to I M R O a year later , were charity commission er type accounts , which evidently showed something like five hundred thousand pounds in that charitable fund and er and no transactions you know , so and that company that was running that was the beneficial owner of our investment company where all the errors took place . |
| 10 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 11 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 12 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 13 | Editor , — Snake oil salesmen might recognise the treatment that was given to Simon Crawford 's patient , but not homoeopaths , lay or medical . |
| 14 | There 's also a big , gold jewellery box that was given to me by my godmother . |
| 15 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 16 | A child that was given to Mrs Gedge to bring up . " |
| 17 | ‘ Being a hijra was the only possibility for me ; there was no other career I could have pursued with the body that was given to me at birth . |
| 18 | All my hon. Friends will remember the reception that was given to Labour 's alternative to the poll tax . |
| 19 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
| 20 | But if they died , there was a very young family , a young wife , needing financial independence that was given to them by you , with a life insurance policy . |
| 21 | First of all I 'm surprised at the outburst that was given to us by Mr I would regard as my er yahabeebee and sadiki if you wish er , but he mentioned in fact the er , what used to be barbaric ac , barbaric er practice in er Pakistan . |
| 22 | We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given . |
| 23 | Additional information really , is , as I had missed the train comma , but it 's , er , you 've got to have a comma after train , because it 's following that rule that was given in the top left hand corner , after I cashed my Giro comma , because of the derailment comma , it 's it 's that rule , it 's the application of that rule . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend agree also that those people will not welcome the pledge that was given from the Opposition Benches yesterday to ensure that high-spending Labour authorities can go with gay abandon to yet higher spending ? |
| 25 | To complement the quotation from Winston Churchill 's reply to the debate on the then Coal Mines ( Eight Hours ) Bill that was given by the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , I should like to draw the House 's attention to other words of Winston Churchill in the same speech , which are as self-evidently true today as they were then : ’ We have reminded the hon. Gentleman of it often ; but why should cheapness of production always be achieved at the expense of the human factor ? |
| 26 | The replies to this question were interesting and were given with no prompting . |
| 27 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 28 | Bede tells the story that , so backward were the heathen South Saxons that although a maritime race , they did not know how to fish and were given to mass suicides from convenient cliffs when the corn harvest failed after a terrible drought . |
| 29 | Could I just remind members of the board of the next two meetings which are at the bottom of the er a a agenda and were given to you previously of course . |
| 30 | Beauty and the Beast proved highly popular and was given with many casts during later seasons ; it has also been revived for several other companies , with various designers . |