Sentence examples for us were given from inspiring English sources

A recent study suggests that after universities in the US were given the right in 1980 (the Bayh-Dole Act) to patent inventions (funded by the government), this resulted in a significant increase in patents and in particular in licensing of university patents (Adams et al. 2001).

Those granted green cards to the US were given false hope as they are met with detention and interrogation upon landing in the country.

Throughout September 2009, people who purchased or preordered Guitar Hero 5 in the US were given a code which they could redeem to receive a free copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen prior to its retail release.

But our staff – there are three of us – were given warning of redundancy.

All 10 of us were given shopping carts, and I was instructed to pick out what I wanted to eat, including one of the fish swimming in the huge tanks by the checkout counter.

Very often, the puzzles confronting us were given crisp formulations by earlier thinkers and we find them puzzling precisely for that reason.

Each of us was given a radiation detector.

Each of us was given a 10-second explanation.

Question of destiny: Each of us is given a lot in life; that's fate.

Each of us was given a very good sourdough roll, but a second was not offered.

One of us is given responsibility to prepare the filling, which takes a while.