Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] give the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am to give the first reading . |
| 2 | The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has stated that , in the longer term — I am giving the hon. Member for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) his answer . |
| 3 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 4 | Lucky me — I reckon I was given the best of both worlds . |
| 5 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 6 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 7 | I was given the inside lane and I was furious and protested . |
| 8 | I C I was given the unfortunate impression with management more interested in running a big chemical company than in maximizing shareholder returns . |
| 9 | You are given the following information about the retail price index in the UK : |
| 10 | You are given the following par yields : |
| 11 | You are given the following set of government bond prices , where the bonds pay coupons annually : |
| 12 | You are given the following information about four firms : . |
| 13 | You are given the following information : |
| 14 | If you are giving the fresh flowers yourself , you have the ideal opportunity of holding a few back and pressing them immediately . |
| 15 | And she 's giving the other patients their pill . |
| 16 | Earlier this year she was given the all clear and joined Dreamflight as a helper . |
| 17 | An accidental death verdict has been recorded on a woman who died after she was given the wrong blood during an operation . |
| 18 | She was given the special responsibility of taking care of me , and I owe her my life . |
| 19 | The image which traditionally represents the event is not the whirlpool of flags , horses and brave knights confronting the Asiatic intruders — instead we are given the sentimental image of a young , mournful maiden nursing wounded Serbs . |
| 20 | ‘ We were given the wrong advice in the first place , ’ says Jeremy Myles of TEM . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , we were given the green light — unfortunately , poor Molly was accidentally stepped on a couple of times . |
| 22 | Sir , we would Er my suggestion would be that if tomorrow were the cutoff date , that we be given the ordinary two weeks in which to respond . |
| 23 | Equally I believe that local communities too must feel that the police are to them if they are to give the positive help which the police need to successfully detect and prosecute the criminals who prey on them . |
| 24 | When Newham Members raise the problem with social security Ministers , they are given the official answer that it is caused by the number of Somali refugees . |
| 25 | If pupils are motivated to learn to use spoken Standard English because they wish to adopt a social role , they will learn it if they are given the appropriate educational experiences and opportunities . |
| 26 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 27 | Oriental rugs need room to breathe , and unless they are given the right amount of space they can either be swamped by the surrounding decor or become so overpowering that they detract from everything else in the room . |
| 28 | It is therefore vital that they are given the right sort of care , so they can grow up to be well developed and strong physically , mentally alert , contented and emotionally stable . |
| 29 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 30 | By allowing delegated authority to subordinates , management at middle and junior levels are ‘ groomed ’ for eventual senior management positions , because they are given the necessary experience of decision-making . |