Example sentences of "they have been give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 2 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 3 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 4 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 5 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 6 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 7 | They had been given a meal there but had refused to stay overnight . |
| 8 | They had been given a family room , from which Monsieur Gauthier had obligingly removed one of the three single beds in order to provide the space Iris required for her daily yoga session . |
| 9 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 10 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 11 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 12 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 17 | And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 20 | They have been given a confidence and liveliness through the influence of a common interpretation of Quantum Theory . |
| 21 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |