Example sentences of "[adv] [be] given the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He felt he had finally been given the spade to bury himself with . |
| 10 | The spiritual successor to the Jaguar E-type has finally been given the go-ahead . |
| 11 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 13 | BRITAIN 'S first legal red light district could soon be given the go-ahead . |
| 14 | The developer will normally be given the opportunity to tender for the excavation work and laying of ducts and cables in association with the development . |
| 15 | If thrown from his horse he would not be given the opportunity to remount . |
| 16 | ‘ Why the hell should disabled people not be given the chance to run things themselves ? ’ |
| 17 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 18 | It would seem that there are few general applications , but several specific conditions may be helped by higher doses of vitamin A. Firstly , though , it should be remembered that retinol is toxic in large doses , and the public should not be given the impression that it is a safe supplement for children who may have recurrent respiratory or diarrhoeal illness . |
| 19 | It was his second consecutive penalty miss and Norwich 's third out of four this season , and Walker said afterwards the Welsh international would not be given the job in future . |
| 20 | District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers . |
| 21 | As an example , Drucker quoted the case of Crown-Zellerbach , a big West-Coast pulp and paper manufacturer , which found that long-range forest management was such an important activity that it had to be established as a separate department , because otherwise it would not be given the attention its importance warranted . |
| 22 | It is good to see Moorcock 's work finally being given the attention which is so often lavished on lesser writers . |
| 23 | But these were grassroots reggae music , and ‘ Catch A Fire ’ represents the first time that Marley — or indeed any reggae artist other than Jimmy Cliff — had ever been given the budget that a rock band got to record an LP . |
| 24 | LENNOX LEWIS may still be given the chance of a dream world title fight after all . |
| 25 | Bearing in mind the rate of growth , these are not a fish to be fattened up and passed on quickly , living well in excess of ten years and hopefully being given the respect during this time that any animal deserves . |
| 26 | Since his death the workers of the industrial world have experienced ( despite severe dislocations in the 1920s , 1930s and 1970s ) a fairly continuous increase in their material standards of living , a massive expansion of social welfarism and have also been given the right to vote for their own governments in relatively pluralistic political systems with competitive political parties and regular elections . |
| 27 | Five years earlier another American finance theorist , Franco Modigliani , had also been given the prize . |
| 28 | The world of the imagination is limitless and it is here that the mind must be freed , but it must also be given the spur of inspiration . |
| 29 | They should also be given the opportunity to encounter types of writing drawn from a variety of other genres — such as letters , biographies , autobiographies , diaries , film or TV scripts , travel books and other non-fictional literature . |
| 30 | Leaseholders of higher rated houses will also be given the right to buy the freehold of their property . |