Example sentences of "they [be] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 2 | Neither had they been given extra hay the night before . |
| 3 | Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place , would they have reacted differently ? |
| 4 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 5 | Furthermore , many authorities , had they been given the option , would have chosen to spend more on services . |
| 6 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 7 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 8 | They are given equipment and free visits by carefully selected coaches , who give a series of lessons in the school with the class teacher being gradually trained to take a more and more active part . |
| 9 | Most of the refugees who arrived after Hungary opened its border with Austria on 11 September , and aboard the special trains last week , have been taken to reception camps where they are given West German citizenship papers and DM200 ( £66 ) . |
| 10 | After landing , they are given a number and expected to conform quickly to an institutional existence in conditions worse than many of Hong Kong 's prisons . |
| 11 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 12 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 13 | Under a trust for sale the trustees obviously can sell , and they are given by statute a discretionary power to retain . |
| 14 | During this time they are given drugs thought to be effective against Alzheimers — which also causes memory loss and lack of attention — to assess their efficacy . |
| 15 | However , they are likely to get the best start in life if they are given an ample helping of peat-like compost in the hole . |
| 16 | If they are given another four or five years to bed in , no Government would dare to reverse them , any more than Labour could take back council houses from their new owners , or renationalise privatised industry . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , they are given equal prominence in the New Testament , and should be given equal weight as images of God . |
| 18 | Supply teachers are more effective and happier when they are given some guidance on routines and expectations . |
| 19 | How the House is televised is important ; far more important is how the House is broadcast — the use the broadcasters make of the clean feed they are given . |
| 20 | They are given advice , counselling and work to do at home . |
| 21 | It is a great tragedy that there are types of pain which fail to respond to narcotics even when they are given in large repeated doses . |
| 22 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
| 23 | Whether or not they are given delegated powers , sub-committees must have specific terms of reference and clearly defined tasks , so that everyone understands just what the sub-committees are to do and when it is to be done . |
| 24 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 25 | They are given the induction pack and are taken round the home and shown the layout . |
| 26 | But here they are given real life , with quiet style . |
| 27 | Correll thinks herbicides , more potent than they are given credit for , may be to blame . |
| 28 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 29 | In this way , provided they are given guidance on the type and volume of work expected , schools could be brought back into the mainstream of assessing their own pupils ' work instead of being totally dependent on the success or failure of the guessing games they play with the examiner . |
| 30 | Once they pass they are given accreditation for the products they are allowed to sell , and that accreditation is available for the customer to see . ’ |