Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] give [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-day training courses were also given to our telephone operators as part of the long term aim at increasing our effectiveness in the use of the telephone . |
| 2 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 3 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 4 | They , they were probably given to them secondhand an'all |
| 5 | A year afterwards , an express came , Mrs. Welch reminded her of her dream , and upon opening the Will it was found that the cabinet was left to Mrs. Blencowe and Mrs. Jennens was directed by her dream to the secret drawers , where she found diamonds and other valuables , which were afterwards given to her daughter Mrs. Peareth |
| 6 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 7 | In this vein Malinvaud ( 1983 ) writes : ‘ [ T ] he Walrasian equilibrium … is appropriate for long-run economic analysis , because in the long run prices are actually flexible and play the role that was traditionally given to them . ’ |
| 8 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 9 | News of Hickey 's latest protest to prove his innocence was today given to his mother , Mrs Ann Skett , by his solicitors . |
| 10 | Contrary to the usual practice elsewhere , ‘ less than £1 ’ means a few shillings leavened by a sporadic nil assessment , rather than the opposite , for only one man in nine was actually given as nil , the majority ranging from 3s. 4d. to 18s . |