Example sentences of "was given [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sporting world is full of fairy tales … but if the name of Samantha Raeisi ever reaches the headlines its going to be quite a story … she 's from Swindon … she 's a mum … she 's a model … and a few years ago she was given just a few weeks to live … |
| 2 | Earlier this month Mr Harris was given just a few days to live but for now his illness seems to have regressed . |
| 3 | A TEENAGER was given just six hours to live after taking an ecstasy tablet , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 5 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 6 | The constant diligence she gave was given ungrudgingly . |
| 7 | This rating was given immediately the subject heard the bleep in the centre of the junction . |
| 8 | The defendant was standing in the dock awaiting the sentence which was given immediately for the charge which had been reduced to manslaughter . |
| 9 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 10 | Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness . |
| 11 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 12 | Apart from the system of Speenhamland , which was judged a disastrous failure in Britain , little thought was given again to the idea until the turn of this century when proposals for family allowances were being seriously discussed by a variety of left-wing political and feminist groups . |
| 13 | An example of the use of a high-pass filter was given above in respect of Figure 5.14 . |
| 14 | He was given not merely men but the specialist help of a French general , Marshal Bellefonds , who was to command the expedition on land , and an intelligence and political adviser , François de Bonrepaux , who had served recently as French ambassador in England . |
| 15 | In fact it turned out that the size of this quantum was given not by h but by h divided by 2π , a quantity denoted by ħ and pronounced " aitch bar " or " aitch slash " or often ( because it really is the natural unit ) just " aitch " . |
| 16 | In 1877 , the manufacture and repair of locomotives at Wolverton was given up and the whole of this work was done at Crewe , so that Wolverton became an exclusively carriage building centre . |
| 17 | The parcels carrying service proved unsatisfactory and was given up on 31 December 1911 . |
| 18 | The service on the Penge route was curtailed at the ‘ Pawleyne Arms ’ and the Cricket Green service at Mitcham was given up . |
| 19 | The house , empty for nearly twenty years , was in a sorry state , and Honora recalled in a television interview , ‘ The garden was given up as lost … |
| 20 | A new emphasis on the fruit of learning being inward experience of the truth of Christ was given particularly cogent expression by such men as the Carthusian Guigo II and the Cistercian Bernard of Clairvaux . |
| 21 | In each case the primary diagnosis was substance abuse , and initial treatment was given accordingly . |
| 22 | The lead was given both as composer and as publisher by Byrd 's pupil Morley . |
| 23 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 24 | In 1681 , the Burgh of Selkirk , having chosen Sir Patrick Murray , who did not reside in that burgh , to be their commissioner to Parliament , a charge was given both to the burgh and to Sir Patrick for payment of the penalty imposed by the of Convention . |
| 25 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 26 | How much of the discussion was given over to reporting back on the perceptions of others including children ? |
| 27 | Though the Reformation brought an end to Grandison 's college , the medieval college houses were allowed to remain , and the collegiate church , to which a magnificent parish aisle had recently been added , was given over completely to the people of the town . |
| 28 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 29 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 30 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |