Example sentences of "[adv] be given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was floating , up , away , soaring on the strength of his kiss like a bird who had been caged , tethered too long , and had suddenly been given the flight of freedom . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 3 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 4 | The children — aged between four weeks and six years — had all been given the drug while under intensive care , a report in yesterday 's British Medical Journal revealed . |
| 5 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 6 | With the current boom in interest in opera , though , this disc enters a very competitive field indeed and so , once again , can only be given a general recommendation . |
| 7 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 8 | Cnut is being crowned and Emma is apparently being given a veil by angels pointing to Christ , who is flanked by the patron saints of New Minster , the Virgin Mary and Peter . |
| 9 | So you have a frustrated male who can not understand why it is apparently being given the ‘ come-on ’ and who not surprisingly reacts with hostility when spawning is not forthcoming . |
| 10 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 11 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 12 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 13 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
| 14 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 15 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
| 16 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 17 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 18 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 19 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 20 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 21 | He 's not been given a legal decision , he 's passed an opinion , saying oh , this , this woman , was , you know , encouraging the man , and things like that , and that 's what gets people 's backs up , I think . |
| 22 | Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit . |
| 23 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 24 | But the GMC has not been given the power to set out which treatments are ‘ scientifically validated ’ and therefore permissible and those that are not and therefore forbidden . |
| 25 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 26 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 27 | It will seem strange to them that the House has not been given the opportunity to hear a statement on the matter , or to debate it . |
| 28 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |
| 29 | ‘ I am particularly sad that my mother has not been given an opportunity even to purchase his Military Cross , ’ said Maxwell , who is now a job consultant after being made Britain 's biggest bankrupt , with £400 million debts . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |