Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] be give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty of the 50 garages checked were giving sub-standard tests , using poor equipment , lax testing procedures or passing cars in a dangerous condition . |
| 2 | News that the Islands ' social workers had been given professional stress therapy astounded the families and their support organisation . |
| 3 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
| 4 | The development officers had been given approximate hourly costs ( or costs per visit ) of other home services and had to calculate , using these figures , the existing expenditure on each client . |
| 5 | Ashrawi had said on Jordan on Nov. 9 that she and her fellow delegates had been given diplomatic protection by the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 7 | In another incident , patients had been given fake steroid creams , he added . |
| 8 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 9 | He reminded the House that the police had been given forty-eight hours notification of the proposed route : ‘ Honourable members on this side of the House who in this respect are charging him [ Paisley ] with gross civic and social irresponsibility must also charge the police with exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 10 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 11 | The head of Cardiff University 's health psychology research unit revealed yesterday that 400 volunteers had been given cold virus nose drops . |
| 12 | ( Common safety standards for engineering products had been given final approval by the Council on June 14 . ) |
| 13 | Thus , if the ten students had been given additional tuition , however ineffective , it would have appeared to be of benefit . |
| 14 | Doctors ( psychiatric and general practice trainees ) and nurses had been given special instruction in the assessment of deliberate self-poisoning patients . |