Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 2 | The concern for the people for whom you are responsible by being given a position of influence and power and authority has gone . |
| 3 | One old man remembered that a visit as a child to the doctor did not result in being given a prescription . |
| 4 | The experiment has been extended by trying to teach rats , at various intervals after teaching them to run to avoid a shock , to stay dead still to avoid being given a shock . |
| 5 | You have no legal right to insist upon being given a reference ; the relevant legal principles are discussed in Chapter 21 . |
| 6 | No employee can insist upon being given a reference when he leaves a job , unless ( as hardly ever happens ) his contract specifically entitles him to one . |
| 7 | THE Redgrave Theatre , Farnham , is being given a grant of £17,000 for 1992–93 by Hampshire County Council . |
| 8 | Anyone reading this today could well assume that they were being given a description of a military event , but the date was in fact 1950 and I was about to start my secondary education . |
| 9 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |
| 10 | It was an immediate success and already rivals , BBC Radio 3 are being given a run for their money . |
| 11 | After an hour or so they are given a brief rest by switching the lights off and then they are tested by being given a choice between attempting to follow the light on which they had been imprinted ( say the red ) and another , unfamiliar light , say the yellow . |
| 12 | After all , it was n't exactly as if he was being given a choice . |
| 13 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 14 | Slowly parts of Funchal are being given a facelift , partly with tourists in mind and partly just because many of the old buildings are in danger of crumbling away . |
| 15 | A senior Government minister replied that people were being given a stake in society by being allowed to buy their council houses . |
| 16 | One is being given a chance to show what one can do and this realization often releases amazing reserves of energy , enthusiasm and creative flair . |
| 17 | Could a taxi driver be deprived of his licence to operate at Heathrow because of misconduct , without being given a chance to put his side of the story ? |
| 18 | They often responded positively to being given a chance , but as time went on , the same families ended up with the father on the dole and older brothers and sisters unable to find work . |
| 19 | Chantelle says that the Gloucester area has lots of good young skiers and they were n't being given a chance so she formed the club and the response has been overwhelming … they survive thanks to parents but they are hoping to find a sponsor … it 's not like a football team or tennis club because they have British champions |
| 20 | MERSEYSIDERS are being given a chance to see a stunning photographic exhibition . |
| 21 | A new era of austerity starts in April 1994 , and the next 12 months looks like an all-too-brief inter-regnum in which the economy is being given a chance to grow again before the tax blows begin to fall . |
| 22 | If your inadequacy is so serious that , to use one phrase from the case law , there is an ‘ irredeemable incapability ’ , so that being given a warning and an opportunity to mend your ways would simply be a waste of time and might put the business at risk , it may be just to dismiss you as soon as the full extent of your failings comes to light . |
| 23 | Now a reward in terms of status , by being given a word to put in front of her name . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 26 | The government first designated six areas to be turned into HATs , without the tenants being given a say . |
| 27 | ‘ She is being given a drug called Mellaril . |
| 28 | Not everyone 's so lucky , being given a horse . |
| 29 | By the time Constance had dropped off Louise , who was not mollified by being given a lift to her door , it was past six . |
| 30 | Heaven for him meant them being given a lift in a girlfriend 's second-hand Fiat and , whereas other toddlers of fifteen months or so usually toted teddy bears or other furry animals , he never went anywhere without taking along at least one toy car . |