Example sentences of "they have been give " in BNC.

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1 They 'd been given names by the local people — the Grand Canyon , the Great Wall of China — on account of the strangeness of their formations .
2 I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to .
3 Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future .
4 They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future .
5 ‘ They will use you to taste what they 've been given , You may die like those men of Pesaro 's . ’
6 And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving .
7 ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match .
8 Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that .
9 Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association .
10 I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience .
11 They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ?
12 The major problem is likely to be that enterprising ‘ try-outers ’ will hack the code they 've been given to play with and render the program fully usable if companies merely decrement a counter and destroy its function once it reaches zero as you suggest .
13 They 've been given er labels of T L and N where the T er colloquially stands for tiny , L stands for large in terms of the single channel condu respective single channel conductances and er I 'm not sure what the origin of N is .
14 We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that .
15 They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 .
16 Yeah and they 've been given out ?
17 And we 're , we are , we 're ourselves if you 're in a mess then people out there have got virtually no training other than what they 've been given
18 What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ?
19 They 've been given 44 .
20 We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health .
21 The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup .
22 When I 've been taking Paul to work in the morning they 've been giving me flashes and then if I , you know , flashed them back they have n't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous !
23 They had been given special permission to land there , only a short distance from the state fairgrounds at Del Mar , where the 13th final will be held this weekend .
24 FoE 's surveyors , said Last , were ‘ entitled to more rigorous answers ’ than they had been given .
25 They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath .
26 It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge .
27 These people also had physical symptoms caused by the side-effects of the drugs they had been given to control their depression and hallucinations .
28 The secret is how to listen to this inner voice without which the Holy Ones would not have been able to pass on the messages they had been given .
29 ‘ If the prints were undated or if they had been given younger dates most experts would probably accept them as have made by Homo , ’ said Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago who has recently analysed casts of the footprints at the invitation of Mary Leakey .
30 The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision .
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