Example sentences of "[was/were] give [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Barbarians , who were actually Celts and were given their cruel name by their invaders , transported their stuff by sea or by horse and cattle ( and had links with Europe , incidentally ) , the Romans built roads . |
| 2 | These were given their first test run and enthused about by the audiences for Wuthering Heights a very worthwhile investment . |
| 3 | In 1979 , British voters were given their first opportunity to elect representatives . |
| 4 | At these concerts many of Bach 's symphonies , concertos , cantatas , chamber works , and keyboard sonatas were given their first performances . |
| 5 | Two members of the French side were given their marching orders and have since received substantial suspensions . |
| 6 | Benefit of the Doubt must be given that all employed by the Grand Canyon were brain damaged at birth and were given their bureaucratic procedure in India . |
| 7 | Until then , every studio had a cast list of thirty or forty top-billing actors and actresses and dozens of contracted young people who were provided with their acting lessons , their dance lessons , their speech lessons , and the young directors were given their directorial tests , and they all went into bat often . |
| 8 | When this happened they were given their own temple and , of course , in the temples were altars such as the one on the reverse of the coin . |
| 9 | The fact that his choices have been criticised in their communities for collaborating with apartheid ever since Indians and coloureds — but not blacks — were given their own chambers in 1984 suggests that the president had difficulty finding anyone willing to join a government nearing the end of its life . |
| 10 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
| 11 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 12 | " Habib Olahi thought part of the blame lay with Iran 's allies — particulary the Americans and the British , who were giving him differing advice . |
| 13 | It was as if she were giving me some hyacinth bulbs and saying December was a bit late to plant them . |
| 14 | ‘ No wonder they were giving me funny looks ! ’ |
| 15 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 16 | He said the Iranians were giving their fellow Shias plenty of support , including weapons and transport . |
| 17 | A lot of Scots came this way via the Northern Line from King 's Cross and they were giving their Scottish concert in the concourse when a heavy metal band arrived and told them roughly to move . |
| 18 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 19 | It seems but yesterday that the Bill was given its Second Reading on 26 November , yet there has been a great deal of debate of its contents . |
| 20 | About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl . |
| 21 | Between 1764 and 1765 two outer wings were added and the façade was given its Rococo scrolls by Jan Josef Wirch . |
| 22 | Care programming was given its present form by a Department of Health Circular HC(90)23/LASSL(90)11 addressed to both health and social services authorities . |
| 23 | Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , where Hamlet was given its first performance . |
| 24 | However , on May 29 , 1991 , the draft constitution was given its first reading by the Grand National Assembly . |
| 25 | The Kabalevsky sonata — which , too was given its first USA hearing by Horovitz — is a lesser work with more than a suspicion of playing to Russian wartime tastes , especially in the finale ; but it could scarcely be presented more convincingly . |
| 26 | The strategy was given its first airing two days after the Danish vote at a meeting of the Council in Oslo on 4 June , when it was agreed to proceed with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty while giving time to the Danes to resolve their problems . |
| 27 | Once a definitive picture of it was produced , it was given its own phylum . |
| 28 | The general proposition that an increase in demand was central to the industrial revolution was given its best-known exposition fifty years ago by Elizabeth Gilboy . |
| 29 | Every climax was given its full space whilst avoiding the all too easy pitfall of self-indulgence . |
| 30 | Estonia left the Soviet time zone and aligned itself chronologically with Finland ; Christmas became a public holiday ; and the republican capital , Tallinn , was given its Estonian name ( with two ns rather than one ) for all-union purposes . |