Example sentences of "they have been given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 2 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 3 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 4 | They had been given separate rooms , of course , but liked to gas late into the night , and dress together , and compare clothes and hair and notes . |
| 5 | They had been given special permission to land there , only a short distance from the state fairgrounds at Del Mar , where the 13th final will be held this weekend . |
| 6 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 7 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
| 8 | They are the seeds produced by the fern-like plants such as Mariopteris , but because they are difficult to link with their foliage they have been given separate names . |