Example sentences of "not [be] given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 2 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 4 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
| 5 | He 's not been given a legal decision , he 's passed an opinion , saying oh , this , this woman , was , you know , encouraging the man , and things like that , and that 's what gets people 's backs up , I think . |
| 6 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
| 7 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 8 | If dialogue is being taped in stereo , the signals from the individual speakers should not be given a pronounced left and right stereo bias as this would conflict with the performers ' relative positioning as seen in shot . |
| 9 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |
| 10 | In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up . |
| 11 | Here thoughts about Lucy and about gems are active together and can not be given a satisfactory literal translation describing exactly the degree of similarity between Lucy and a gem . |
| 12 | Such is the fluid nature of the Hindu syncretism that the unifying power behind the gods can not be given a single name . |
| 13 | They may define positions that have often been repeated , but they can not be given a timeless quality . |
| 14 | Tension over the status of the territory continued in 1990 , continuing allegations from Logologofolau that his elected colleagues , together with the traditional chiefs , were not being given a sufficient say in decision-making by the French-appointed Chief Administrator . |
| 15 | ‘ I am very unhappy that public representatives and ratepayers are not being given a true picture . ’ |
| 16 | You wo n't be given a great deal of feedback in that session , just enough to get you going . |