Example sentences of "[noun] they have be give " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the seats had been taken , but once Myeloski had waved his warrant-card at the ticket-desk they had been given seats . |
| 2 | We have organised for every eventuality and the players feel comfortable with the roles they have been given . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many Christians see , in this parable , the command to use the talents and abilities they have been given in the service of God and all people . |
| 6 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 7 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 8 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They are the seeds produced by the fern-like plants such as Mariopteris , but because they are difficult to link with their foliage they have been given separate names . |
| 12 | The crew had one last night with their families , and the opportunity to share with them some of the advance they had been given by Yong . |
| 13 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 14 | They use the money they have been given to buy services from hospitals or community units either in their own districts or elsewhere . |
| 15 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When the future Cardinal Richelieu entered government service for the first time in 1616 he found available so little essential documentation on foreign policy that he had to ask French representatives abroad to send him copies of the instructions they had been given : without this he could not know even what the policies of his immediate predecessor had been . |
| 18 | ‘ The message they have been giving is totally irresponsible , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There was the training manual used by the managers to deliver the workshop , plus the training they had been given to deliver it . |
| 20 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 21 | ‘ As rural communities have become increasingly marginal to national economies they have been given less political priority … |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In one of the major cup competitions they have been given home advantage against first division Coventry . |
| 24 | These people also had physical symptoms caused by the side-effects of the drugs they had been given to control their depression and hallucinations . |
| 25 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 26 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |