Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] given [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
2 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
3 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
4 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
5 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
6 | Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril . |
7 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
8 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
9 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
10 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |