Example sentences of "[prep] be give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Curtis , the former Welsh international striker , yesterday signed for Swansea after being given a free transfer by Cardiff . |
| 2 | Despite having 20 minutes to compose himself after being given advance notification of the exit poll result , the tension showed clearly on the Kinnocks ' faces as they they struggled to swallow bitter disappointment . |
| 3 | With punters across the country totally baffled , the field regrouped and , after being given the go-ahead by course officials after an eight minute break , started again , this time jumping the offending obstacle . |
| 4 | TRANSPLANT patient Lisa Strange , 12 , was fighting for her life yesterday after being given a new heart and lungs . |
| 5 | HOW proud Karen Costen must be of her two-year-old son who battled on after being given two weeks to live and has finally had a kidney transplant . |
| 6 | Hounslow came up with £100,000 after being given a limit of £10,000 . |
| 7 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 8 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 9 | After being given clearance to land , Miranda , following her instructor 's directions , started her approach ; she throttled back to reduce speed and control her descent as she flew towards the threshold — the point just before she intended to touch down . |
| 10 | When patients recover after being given glucagon , oral glucose or carbohydrate should be given to replenish glycogen stores and prevent recurrent hypoglycaemia . |
| 11 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 12 | ‘ My sister Dorothy died from stomach cancer just eight weeks after being given a clean bill of health by a Manchester hospital . |
| 13 | SACKED Coleraine surgeon dramatically resigned today shortly after being given his job back by the Northern Health Board . |
| 14 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
| 15 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 16 | But today she walked free from the High Court in Edinburgh after being given community service . |
| 17 | A couple who ran a social club for three years are taking legal action after being given just two hours ' notice to leave their jobs and home . |
| 18 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 19 | DARLINGTON midfield player Gary Gill wants to play abroad after being given a free transfer by new manager Ray Hankin . |
| 20 | In May , the electorate of Wear Valley chose the Liberals after being given a multitude of promises which have yet to be fulfilled . |
| 21 | In his semi-final Hartlepool 's Mark Chicocki was disqualified after being given three warnings in the last round for leaning on , a decision booed soundly by the crowd and highlighted by the fact that in following bouts boxers who leaned on just as much were n't even spoken to . |
| 22 | Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven yesterday joined second division promotion-chasers Port Vale on a 15-month contract after being given a free transfer . |
| 23 | LITTLE Laura Davies can not wait to start school after being given the all-clear to travel home following her double transplant operation in America five months ago . |
| 24 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 25 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 26 | To create a Chebyshev filter , equation ( 12.22 ) shows that the poles of must be arranged to satisfy Making the helpful substitution so that the required condition ( 12.27 ) becomes or on equating real and imaginary parts Since can not be zero , and and it follows that the poles of are given by equation ( 12.28 ) subject to the two conditions where p is any integer ( positive or negative ) including zero , and Of course , the poles can also be obtained through similar substitution for rather than . |
| 27 | According to this particular result , the required poles of are given by or since where or 243.43° . |
| 28 | Erm that we consideration of be given by independent Technical Advisor on environmental damage . |
| 29 | In a review of reconviction rates , for example , a Home Office report concluded : ‘ Those given probation orders were therefore less likely to be reconvicted within two years of being given probation than those released from custody ’ ( Home Office , 1986 , p. 5 ) . |
| 30 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |