be given
Example Sentences
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"We may also take some key microbes of interest and see if they can be given preventively as a probiotic. There is lots of exciting future work to come."
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
"What that means in real terms is that everybody in life has to be given a fair crack of the whip," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The proposal called for the wealth fund’s profits to be given directly to citizens, allowing more people to benefit from the upside of the technology’s growth, including those not invested in the financial markets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
He has constantly maintained that when jurists interpret statutes, words are to be given the meaning that an ordinary English speaker would have understood them to possess when Congress enacted the statute.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
“Mr. Lemoncello insists that everybody be given balloons and cake. Cake has no place in a library. Frosting is sticky. Sticky fingers damage books.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
