Example sentences of "they have been given [art] " 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 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
| 11 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 12 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 13 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 14 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 22 | They have been given a confidence and liveliness through the influence of a common interpretation of Quantum Theory . |
| 23 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 24 | They have been given the names of ‘ the mouse-pounce ’ , ‘ the bird-swat ’ and ‘ the fish-scoop ’ . |
| 25 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 26 | Every sales consultant has covered the basics ; they have been given the tools for success ; the Super Sales Grit ingredient takes you to where no sales-person has previously thought to go . |
| 27 | Semi-nomadic tribes live on the fringes of the notorious Empty Quarter desert , where they have been given the task by Sultan Qaboos and the World Wildlife Fund of reintroducing the rare Arabian Oryx ( antelope ) to its natural habitat . |
| 28 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |