Example sentences of "they [be] given the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , many authorities , had they been given the option , would have chosen to spend more on services . |
| 2 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 3 | All services should address relatives ' needs seriously by giving information , ensuring they feel involved and above all by ensuring that they are given the support they need to carry on caring . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals . |
| 5 | They are given the opportunity to involve the local chief officer of police in their curriculum planning and they must make an explicit decision about the place of sex education in the curriculum . |
| 6 | Realising these advantages assumes that DHAs do have bargaining leverage over providers , that they do have choices and that they are given the freedom to make them . |
| 7 | They are given the status of goddesses by virtue of their being , in a Swedeoborgian sense , vessels of symbolic love and so they are mystified and removed from the realms of real , whole , sexual beings . |
| 8 | They are given the induction pack and are taken round the home and shown the layout . |
| 9 | We still have a small hard core of football supporters that are willing and able to create trouble if they 're given the chance . |
| 10 | People will put money on anything if they 're given the opportunity . ’ |
| 11 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 12 | And cos the the studio is also used regularly for rehearsals for example or as you know if er local amateur company is putting on a show in the studio they 're given the use of the studio a week before the week of the show . |
| 13 | They were given the choice of becoming part of the maintained system or becoming independent ; most chose the latter . |
| 14 | They were given the chance to recant , they did so , and they went on with their work . |
| 15 | Without any exaggeration , it would be true to say that , apart from Tory ideologues , the overwhelming majority of people in this country would agree to this legislation , if they were given the chance to read it and in more simple terms . |
| 16 | The killer faces a future existence in solitary confinement , since his fellow inmates would undoubtedly do the court 's job for them if they were given the chance . |
| 17 | Again the number of Western representatives was small : there were only five papal legates , three bishops and two priests , but they were given the presidency partly at least because this council , though formally convoked by the emperor , had been called for by Pope Leo . |
| 18 | When the Falklands were invaded on 2 April last year , they were given the weekend to pack and a police escort to the Dover ferry . |
| 19 | The total sample was divided into six groups , and each group was asked to choose out of five repayment arrangements for a particular loan ; then , given more information about the terms of the loan , they were given the opportunity of changing their choice . |
| 20 | To standardise the manner in which information was presented by the investigator , patients were simply left to digest the written information for one hour , but they were given the opportunity to clarify anything which they did not understand before their state of anxiety was reassessed by a second Spielberger questionnaire . |
| 21 | And if they were given the opportunity or or and the impetus to start to do something positive , I 'm sure they would take that up . |
| 22 | Additionally , they were given the opportunity to experience other ways of learning mathematics than those which they knew about from their own schooldays . |
| 23 | Little by little , however , MacDonald and his closest colleagues became convinced that if they were given the opportunity to form a Government it would be folly to turn it down . |
| 24 | They just do n't actually have that information , a lot of small local groups , and I think maybe the C B S could work with the Engineers department in future years and try to get to those groups , because I 'm sure a lot of them , actually if they were given the opportunity in time to get in , that , that you might have a lot of people applying for flag and whatever than you do now . |
| 25 | They were given the right to visit , but they do n't have to produce passports . |
| 26 | If they were given the duty to inform the courts when debts were paid , they would not be deterred from fulfilling it ( as many debtors would ) by ignorance or even fear of the courts . |
| 27 | And they were given the information on on traffic relief er in the leaflet in more detail at the exhibition . |
| 28 | They decided to become members of the CIS provided they were given the status of its co-founders . |
| 29 | So much so , indeed , that they were given the task of overseeing the Minor side this year . |
| 30 | They were given the go-ahead for England and Wales by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications [ NCVQ ] in June , and as we went to press were awaiting final approval from the equivalent Scottish body , SCOTVEC , and Northern Ireland . |