Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] a [noun] [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 | Germany , Switzerland and the Netherlands are encouraging a switch to crop rotation , integrated pest management , or steam-based soil sterilization . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would n't say it was exactly narrow-minded , but you 've got a position , you 're given a position to hold and you get it rammed down you that ‘ I am now an applied scientist ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ When they 're given a chance to do what they joined the fire brigade for . ’ |
| 16 | Look on the bright side , you 're given a chance to review and revise your current plans and make any changes or adjustments necessary . |
| 17 | Well they 're given a time to turn up in a group are n't they ? |
| 18 | They 're using a machine to do something . |
| 19 | If you 're seeking a way to express frustrated emotion and thwarted love , then you need to know that children are individuals who come with their own rights and demands . |
| 20 | One group of villagers are so delighted they 're holding a celebration to mark the best harvest in years . |
| 21 | we 're having a salad to make . |
| 22 | This month we 're starting a trial to discover the best-tasting strawberries . |
| 23 | What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work . |
| 24 | So they 're organising a seminar to ask for ideas from the public . |
| 25 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 26 | EC insists that carrots are classified a fruit to enable the Portuguese to continue using carrots to make their jam . |
| 27 | Care workers involved in the case are so concerned at the possibility of the children being returned home , they are considering a move to have this evidence made public . |
| 28 | HUNDREDS of supporters of the Free Radio Association are holding a party to celebrate the 29th birthday of the pop pirate ship Radio Caroline . |
| 29 | ‘ You are to devise a means to destroy the eight twelves , ’ said Fakrid . |
| 30 | Now New Yorkers are getting a chance to do a little suffering for art right here at home . |