Example sentences of "staff were give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 2 | Teaching staff were given an initial briefing , and a month later the full governing body and PTA were briefed in detail . |
| 3 | When the location of the site was announced in the summer of 1980 , staff were given a provisional timetable to show when various employees might be moving . |
| 4 | INROADS STAFF were given the opportunity to star in a video recently alongside rugby internationalist Gavin Hastings and Steve Hamilton from Wheel of Fortune . |
| 5 | The number of US personnel in the USAID office in Yemen was reduced from 19 to one before the outbreak of the war on Jan. 15 , with the remaining official scheduled to leave by Jan. 30 , and local staff were given " administrative leave " as of Feb. 2 . |
| 6 | Construction faults , equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents . |
| 7 | For their success the staff were given a framed certificate , together with £100 to donate to the charity of their choice . |
| 8 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 9 | A number of arts professional development teachers reported that their involvement in schools was often initiated by primary headteachers feeling that staff were giving inadequate time to an area of the curriculum vital to the personal development of the pupils . |
| 10 | He added that the 20 staff were giving their ‘ complete co-operation ’ but were ‘ philosophical ’ about the eventual outcome . |