Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are given a budget to spend on the drugs they prescribe for their patients . |
| 2 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 3 | Secondly , ensuring the disadvantaged and less powerful are not excluded and are given a chance to express views by such methods as public inquiry techniques , workshops , seminars , and local opinion polls . |
| 4 | The Children Act specifies certain services which every local authority must provide and they are given a power to provide services in other cases . |
| 5 | Under section 14 the police are given a power to impose conditions on the same grounds as in the case of marches ( see : Police v. Brickley , States , Kitson & Kitson ( Mag.Ct 1987 ) , where demonstrators were convicted for ignoring a condition that they should not stand immediately outside the South African Embassy ) . |
| 6 | This will avoid duplication , and if you are using a store to organise your list do remember to inform them so they can add it to their list as having been bought . |
| 7 | Suppose , for example , you 've been given a problem to work on by one of your teachers . |
| 8 | After all , she had been given a brain to think with while these patriots were being force-fed The Thoughts of Spiro Agnew , The World According to William F. Buckley and Killing Commies for God and Country . |
| 9 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 10 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 11 | Poor Kate had never been given a chance to answer . |
| 12 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | BG has been given a year to complete feasibility studies on the gas-fired scheme with an associated desalination plant which is geared to expected growth in demand for power and water . |
| 15 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 16 | A third person may resent the waste of money and prefer to have been given a bonus to spend as he wishes . |
| 17 | Ingrid had been given a month to complete her mission , which was as long as it would take the Navy to organise a commando raid . |
| 18 | Our neighbour , who had been given a key to check on our house while we had been away , had thoughtfully lit a fire to welcome us home . |
| 19 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 20 | Yes I 'm afraid I 've come in as a a last minute substitute and I feel as if in the eighty ninth minute I 've been given a penalty to take that could win the match or |
| 21 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 22 | Germany , Switzerland and the Netherlands are encouraging a switch to crop rotation , integrated pest management , or steam-based soil sterilization . |
| 23 | Indigenous peoples from northern Russia are demanding a halt to work on exploiting the Udokan copper deposit until the Russian parliament has passed legislation on the economic status of the region and the rights of indigenous people . |
| 24 | However , this barrier was removed by s. 3 of the 1978 Act , the effect of which has been to enable a party to bring an action against any one partner for the recovery of the partnership debt irrespective of the liability of other partners . |
| 25 | FAMILY doctors are to launch a campaign to win public sympathy in their fight to opt out of providing round-the-clock patient care , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 26 | Now I am not , of course , challenging the excellence that God requires from us all but I am challenging a tendency to overthrow the radical message of incarnation . |
| 27 | The Disablement Income Group , the Disability Alliance and the National Association of Carers are co-ordinating a campaign to make ICA a universal benefit additional to any other benefit ( like Attendance Allowance or Mobility Allowance ) . |
| 28 | Czechoslovakian ecologists are launching a campaign to prevent large areas of national park land in Slovakia 's Tatra mountains from being developed by an American company as a sports and tourism complex . |
| 29 | What is really going on is they are rigging a system to hide that kind of it 's clearly anonymous to marry a woman who 's your grandmother . |
| 30 | Students have been staging a sit-in to protest about overcrowding at a polytechnic . |