Example sentences of "they [was/were] given [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At the same time they were given standard L.C.C . |
2 | They were given joint custody of Emma and Lucy , with Gabrielle having care and control . |
3 | They were given one day to decide . |
4 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
5 | On arrival they were given simple accommodation in the company camp and received their meals from the centralized kitchen . |
6 | Rye is officially what is called an ‘ Ancient Town ’ attached to the Cinque Ports , those small ports along the coasts of Kent and East Sussex which were fortified against the French ; so necessary were they to the Crown that , in 1278 , they were given legal privileges : exemption from taxes , the right to rule themselves and appoint their own judges . |
7 | Hypertensives in the experimental group received intensive advice about their blood pressure , including guidance on weight control and salt restriction , and if that did n't work they were given anti-hypertensive drugs . |
8 | Regular computer analyses of the results reported by each fieldworker were done to identify workers whose results differed substantially from those of their colleagues ; they were given extra supervision and , where necessary , retraining . |
9 | In the Gulf , in addition to the Kleenex , everywhere they went , no matter what time of day , they were given little cups of very strong coffee to drink . |
10 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
11 | Bolognese lawyers were so important to both the papal and imperial parties in supplying them with lawyers to staff their governments and administrations that they were given special protection . |
12 | Not surprisingly , he saw the news of the Club and course as a good story and they were given generous coverage for many years . |
13 | What we do n't know , of course , is how they organized their living accommodation , whether they ever got paid , they were given these sort of , £ tickets that were supposed to be honoured later on , but as far as we can make out , they hardly ever were , erm and how the people got on , we just have to use our imagination , but it is interesting that here for instance in these three , we actually apart from anything else have two women house-holders , who are obviously erm women who are carrying on business of some independence . |
14 | The defe most people , if they 've revised , would do very well on any one of these as a single essay if they were given three hours . |
15 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
16 | The number of actual evictions was tiny — less than twenty per year — though when they occurred they were given widespread publicity and the fears that they raised went far beyond what their numerical significance might indicate . |
17 | They were given suspended prison sentences of up to two years on the grounds that they had caused no serious damage . |
18 | Some of these children , if they were given this attention over a two year period , could overcome this and go into the secondary school able to cope and take their place alongside the other children , and this is desperately important . |
19 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
20 | Giles 's proposal to make them subservient to government agents was rejected , but they were given some responsibility for supervising the work of both the regular police and the headmen , who were now designated the ‘ rural police ’ . |
21 | Educated Africans , he saw , would only fully accept European rule if they were given some access to the central institutions of government . |
22 | They were given contaminated blood before tests were introduced in 1985 . |
23 | They were given full responsibility and were always informed . |
24 | Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets . |
25 | In 1988 , they were given National Park status by a special Act of Parliament . |
26 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |