Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] given [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , until that stage is reached , all we can do is to ensure that the animals whose flesh we devour are given the best possible lifestyle and are then despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible . |
| 2 | Even those that survive are given a severe check and often produce poor growth . |
| 3 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 4 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 5 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
| 6 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 7 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 8 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 9 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 10 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 11 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 12 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 13 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
| 14 | St Petersburg 's palaces have been given a new chance . |
| 15 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 16 | a senior consultant in Consultancy Services , Risley , said although feelings generally were a bit mixed , ‘ I feel that we have been given a clearer picture of where AEA is heading although I expect to see a lot more changes before things settle down . ’ |
| 17 | THREE welfare organisations in West Cumbria have been given a tremendous boost , thanks to the golfers who took part in last year 's Sellafield Pro-Am golf tournament . |
| 18 | Parents have been given a bigger role than ever before . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now that Grundig has priced its own recorders at dumping levels , however , the Japanese have been given a heaven-sent opportunity to welch on their promises to the EEC . |
| 22 | In general , however , Haycocks III has been regarded as the least important of the three reports and the difficult financial climate of the last few years has meant that its recommendations have been given a low priority . |
| 23 | In practice registry work and the storage of ‘ dead ’ records have been given a low profile and few resources . |
| 24 | But these concerns perhaps reflect that the last two of the eight key tasks — on staff training and informing users — have been given a low priority in some areas . |
| 25 | Sadly , all too often they end up shelling out for mechanical write-offs which have been given a quick paint job and put up for sale at outrageous prices . |
| 26 | Patricia Cahill and Karyn Smith , who were jailed for drugs smuggling , have been given a royal pardon by the King of Thailand . |
| 27 | I feel that some sort of ceremony of blessing of the place may be in order , now that the remains have been given a proper burial , and I have asked for his opinion . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 30 | IMC have been given a free … . ’ |