Example sentences of "[adv] [be] given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 2 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 3 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 4 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 5 | Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet . |
| 6 | These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression . |
| 7 | In any out-patient department patients are daily being given life-or-death judgements about their future . |
| 8 | 08.30 Fred Allcock , who has already been given temporary hand-written despatch documents by John Bell , drives off to Stadium Plastics . |
| 9 | Proposals by Dr Robert Rentoul for the compulsory sterilization of the unfit had already been given short shrift by the BMA in 1904 , on the grounds that they were contrary to medical ethics . |
| 10 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 11 | A kind of ‘ halfway house ’ between the area system and the reference departments/area system has been reached by some of the authorities which do not have a large city collection within their boundaries , but feel that the needs of the ‘ serious ’ reader should nevertheless be given special attention . |
| 12 | The " real property " and " the real respectability " of the new centres of population would thus be given political weight , and the national electorate would be enlarged by " about half a million persons , and these all connected with the property of the country , having a valuable stake amongst us , and deeply interested in our institutions ' … |
| 13 | Soldiers will no longer be given free cigarettes . |
| 14 | Although this theory is expressed formally it can easily be given intuitive support . |
| 15 | The fee range outlined above is given subject to the following provisos : |
| 16 | They have not always been given appropriate educational and library support . |
| 17 | Climbing walls in the past have always been given short change from sports centres and the Sports Council . |
| 18 | gold has always been given special status by most civilisations and is therefore widely accepted ; |
| 19 | They can not be ignored , but should always be given low weight compared with other terms in the search . |
| 20 | Whatever their condition , they should always be given appropriate loving care . |
| 21 | The pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study , and always be given high priority . |
| 22 | The defendant who had not " examined " , in the sense of personally inspected , the offending items might nonetheless be given reasonable cause to suspect obscenity by clandestine or unorthodox behaviour on the part of his supplier . |
| 23 | Gas has also been given favoured status , supposedly to help Britain to meet its modest sulphur reduction targets . |
| 24 | They will also be given automatic entry to the Silk Cut Challenge Cup and the Regal Trophy competitions . |
| 25 | Adedayo Adebayo 's suggestion to improve the game should also be given serious consideration . |
| 26 | The programmer may also be given temporary access to other modules by way of special links . |
| 27 | The programmer may also be given temporary access to other modules by way of special links . |
| 28 | Customers must also be given sufficient information about the risks involved in a transaction adequately to assess the merits of that transaction . |
| 29 | Employees should also be given adequate training in safety precautions etc . |
| 30 | Blind ‘ sightseers ’ are also being given extra confidence to explore the countryside . |