Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be given [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They should rather be given explicit knowledge , thus preventing the usual defence of a claim of ignorance .
2 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 .
3 They can not be ignored , but should always be given low weight compared with other terms in the search .
4 Whatever their condition , they should always be given appropriate loving care .
5 Customers must also be given sufficient information about the risks involved in a transaction adequately to assess the merits of that transaction .
6 Adedayo Adebayo 's suggestion to improve the game should also be given serious consideration .
7 Employees should also be given adequate training in safety precautions etc .
8 The brain should never be given contradictory clues when we attempt to reproduce any of the senses .
9 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 .
10 The programmer may also be given temporary access to other modules by way of special links .
11 The programmer may also be given temporary access to other modules by way of special links .
12 Some may now be given private rooms .
13 Once you have started the course , you may well be given specific routines to accomplish with your pet between these lessons .
14 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 ' …
15 And the old problem remained that skilled men would neither be given suitable work nor time to seek it for themselves .
16 They will also be given automatic entry to the Silk Cut Challenge Cup and the Regal Trophy competitions .
17 Hospital managers , who will be accountable for meeting their targets , will otherwise be given maximum freedom of decision making .
18 These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression .
19 Although this theory is expressed formally it can easily be given intuitive support .
20 Standard thin sections required for teaching collections or archive purposes can now be given self-adhesive labels on which can be written all the details of the sample .
21 Specific developments within formal education and their relation to the new English can now be given direct attention .
22 At the other end of the scale , a small and humble task can sometimes be given ritual status by attending to it with real attention and care .
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