Example sentences of "[prep] [be] given [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When patients recover after being given glucagon , oral glucose or carbohydrate should be given to replenish glycogen stores and prevent recurrent hypoglycaemia . |
| 3 | But today she walked free from the High Court in Edinburgh after being given community service . |
| 4 | It is sadder still that the weight of being given funding may soon be lifted from FAB by the London Borough 's Grants Unit proposal to cut FAB 's grant . |
| 5 | But by failing to register in time you will have lost the chance of being given preference in allocation . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Most of the cathedrals and churches have later alterations and additions but , in many cases , Romanesque work is present in quantity ; perhaps due to the depredations of Henry VIII , English abbeys and priories , instead of being given Baroque face-lifts , have survived , more or less , as ruins from the Medieval period ( PLATE 50 ) . |
| 8 | Where neither attend despite being given notice of the appointment , the court may refuse to make directions . |
| 9 | Julie found it difficult to feel comfortable despite being given analgesia regularly . |
| 10 | When parents have implicitly forbidden their otherwise relatively mature children to be fully sexual creatures , there can be enormous value in being given permission by an authoritative therapist to have and enjoy sex . |
| 11 | Try writing down those things which you feel you absolutely need to know more about before being given responsibility . |
| 12 | They were kept waiting for four hours before being given clearance to cover the Match of The Century ( starring Paul Gascoigne ) . |
| 13 | He also ruled that Noriega 's lawyers must obtain the court 's approval before being given access to classified government documents connected with the case . |
| 14 | He argued that Dorset should continue to record unmet need as it had been doing in a pilot project , although the decision is so politically sensitive that it has to be given clearance by the politicians at their June committee meeting . |
| 15 | Once the treaty is signed , an independent Banque de France is a first step , for Maastricht requires central banks to be given independence by 1999 . |
| 16 | A computer would have to be given knowledge about human eating habits before it could interpret this . |
| 17 | If this were so we would not find the genuine uneasiness about an influx of strangers ( or outside influences ) that can not in any realistic sense threaten the members of the group as individuals , for instance , the insistence by sections of the US citizens that English — of all languages — has to be given protection against immigrant languages by the grant of an official monopoly of public use . |
| 18 | Nestorius himself refused to attend and had to be given protection by imperial troops . |
| 19 | Still , Lazaroni has to be given credit for absorbing the pan-Europeanism of his squad into something the Europeans will need to be aware of in Italy . |
| 20 | US car companies are to be given government help to produce more fuel efficient models . |
| 21 | To be given life and not to serve it or embellish it . … ’ |
| 22 | However , the therapist will benefit from being able to discuss the case with other members of the team or a supervisor in order to be given support and guidance . |
| 23 | Staff need to be given support … especially in the more sensitive areas . |
| 24 | Staff need to be given support in developing strategies for teaching … more sensitive areas . |
| 25 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 26 | It also claims that the M11 extension is not covered by the directive since it is not officially designated a motorway , although the government admits that it is likely to be given motorway status at the time of opening . |
| 27 | Mrs Cass , who was in a wheelchair in court and had breaks to be given oxygen , said she had suffered four heart attacks since the RSPCA became involved with her dogs . |
| 28 | I prescribed a kaolin antacid mixture to be given night and morning and left the house in a confident frame of mind . |
| 29 | The government is this lunchtime expected to announce the third wave of Scottish hospitals to be given self governing status . |
| 30 | Even rented accommodation has been taken up almost exclusively by incomers : company allowances and incomers ' higher salaries generally have meant that rents have increased and that incomers tend to be given preference as tenants . |