Example sentences of "were [not/n't] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 2 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
| 3 | The apostles were not given a priestly role by Jesus and he left no instructions about how the Church was to be organized . |
| 4 | For example , until a few generations ago , children were not given the freedom to express themselves and their individuality . |
| 5 | Before the 1940s , most food law was concerned with ensuring that people were not given short measure or food that was adulterated . |
| 6 | Elevenses were not given to clerks then . |
| 7 | The torchlit streets , as he passed through them , were not given up as usual to the cats and the late-night lovers or revellers but were occupied by knots of busy , muttering men , putting up ladders and hoardings , clearing mud , hanging carpets for tomorrow 's Festival which was for St Nicholas and himself , not for the burghers of Bruges . |
| 8 | These nine Orkney children were not informed ; they were not told the Hearing was taking place ; , they were not given any sort of explanation . |
| 9 | One miner said : ‘ We were not given enough notice . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We were not experienced enough and we did not ask for , and were not given , enough help and guidance from NatWest . ’ |
| 11 | Those questioned were also concerned that they were not given information on exactly how their tax liability was worked out . |
| 12 | The reasons for the distinction were not given in the Panel 's official statements , but appeared in a newspaper article , which explained that ‘ the difference was that Forte had conducted valuations to ensure that the value of its property had been maintained or increased … |
| 13 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the Upazila Health Complexes were not given funds for the collecting of the ORS packets from the storage centres , thereby reducing the incentive for the Health Complexes to use the stores to their full potential . |
| 15 | However , they were not given the title of ‘ king ’ like their father . |
| 16 | The above ideas were generated mainly on the basis of experiments and it is not surprising that many of the key characteristics of thinking in real situations were not given sufficient weight . |
| 17 | Terms were not given . |
| 18 | Nisus Software Inc , Solana Beach , California reports that it has acquired Essential Software Inc , Staatsburg , New York : Essential is the developer and publisher of Easy Alarms , a personal information management program for the Macintosh , and a distributor of the bX-10 Home Control Interface package , software and hardware for home and office automation ; terms were not given . |
| 19 | Cable television operator Viacom International Inc , New York says it has agreed to acquire privately-held software development company Icom Simulations Inc of Chicago , which develops and publishes software for a variety of systems , including CD-ROM and cartridge-based video games ; terms were not given . |
| 20 | But allegations that patients were not given adequate care after they had been discharged from the unit were , on balance , in this investigation , unproven . |
| 21 | For the year , revenues were $140m , up 10% , more than double the rate of growth of the workstation market as a whole ; profit and loss details were not given . |
| 22 | Financial terms were not given . |
| 23 | Patients were not given their morning insulin . |
| 24 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 25 | These reasons were not given in order to deal with explicit criticisms , for explicit criticisms are rare . |
| 26 | What were needed , and were not given , were constructive things , meccano , plasticine , things bad for the sheets and easy to lose . |
| 27 | The report alleged that many scientists , engineers and other specialists were not given the opportunities they should have and too few civil servants were skilled in the techniques of modern management . |
| 28 | But his affections were always specific ; they were not given away to all-comers . |
| 29 | In Moughal v. Motherwell District Licensing Board , 1083 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 84 and Robertson v. Inverclyde Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( sh.Ct. ) 16 it was held that the licensing board were not entitled to proceed on local knowledge of the members , where the parties were not given an opportunity to comment thereon . |
| 30 | The Married Women 's Property Acts of the 1870s and 1880s permitted women to control their own property , although married women were not given the same capacity as single women to acquire , hold and dispose of property until 1935 . |