Example sentences of "[prep] be given [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 5 | He spoke to a cook and used to be given second helpings . |
| 6 | This being found somewhat lukewarm , somewhat unsatisfying and unsatisfactory , the formulation was amended and became : that Bert and Jasper were empowered by those present to offer support to the Irish revolutionaries , and ask to be given concrete tasks . |
| 7 | He was to be given two weeks salary for each year of service . |
| 8 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 9 | In education , we have seen campaigns to allow girls to take crafts in school and to be given non-stereotyped jobs on the youth-training schemes . |
| 10 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 11 | Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child . |
| 12 | EMPLOYERS ARE to be given new powers to isolate union members who take part in unofficial strikes through selective sackings . |
| 13 | Andrew Andrews , a medical legal expert and legal adviser to Tunbridge Wells Health Authority , said it was not enough to be given legal powers and training . |
| 14 | MAGISTRATES are to be given wide powers to fine criminals according to what they believe they can afford . |
| 15 | For example , the customer might ask to be given equal numbers of 5p and 20p coins for use in a vending machine . |
| 16 | Blood cholesterol filter to be given clinical trials |
| 17 | The project crew has yet to appear in Punta del Este , so the crew has no money to pay bills already incurred , and their passports have been left in France to be given Australian visas . |
| 18 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 19 | For this reason we believe that the papillomas at the two sites should continue to be given different names . |
| 20 | Eire and Italy had to be given special concessions in order to take part , Britain refused to join the ERM , and French economic policies caused five changes in the ‘ central rate ’ in 1981–3 . |
| 21 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 22 | Everyone knew that the leader of the party had to be given larger helpings than anyone else . |
| 23 | John Ashburnham , the friend of Charles I , had gone into exile on his patron 's death ; at the Restoration he returned to be given several signs of royal favour , particularly in leases of valuable property . |
| 24 | It is therefore entirely proper for the directors to be given proper assurances by Government about the funding of a project undertaken on behalf of Government . |
| 25 | Certain children , whose names were on a list , were called up once a day to be given yellow capsules which had to be swallowed in front of the teacher . |
| 26 | The Cabinet will meet again on April 30 after the Easter break to be given more details of the contents of the Queen 's Speech . |
| 27 | Partly because of this distinction in favour of processions at common law , it was seen to be necessary for the police to be given statutory powers to control potentially disruptive processions ( but not meetings ) in the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 28 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 29 | It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true . |
| 30 | By reading good examples of descriptions , explanation , opinions , etc and by being given purposeful opportunities to write their own , they should be helped to plan and produce these more demanding types of writing . |