Example sentences of "be give [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits .
2 About half their original sample had been given a second interview four years after the first .
3 ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . )
4 Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance .
5 Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in .
6 you 're given a second chance .
7 No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock
8 ‘ I am to give the first reading .
9 The delay had been to give the second team time to gain position .
10 Gloucester are giving a first team debut to new winger Mark Nicholson .
11 Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk .
12 His brother was to be given a second chance .
13 The independence of republics within existing borders would be recognized , if the republics wished it , and minorities would be given a second nationality and their own schools and legislature .
14 Now this means that the sponsor of the bill , Allan , brothers , pro proposes that the debate be closed and the bill be given a second reading .
15 She hopes soon after her penpal will be given a second chance to prove his innocence and escape the gas chamber .
16 In a clamp-down on crime , the Home Secretary has said that offenders cautioned by police should not expect to be given a second chance .
17 Payne , who three-putted the seventeenth was fortunate to be given a second chance by Gillner , who looked set to gain his first senior win when he required two par 4s at the seventeenth and eighteenth .
18 They would be given a 15-second credit at the start of each programme , 10 seconds at the end and the chance to screen their name either side of the break !
19 He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision .
20 We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive .
21 If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned .
22 Then after lunch I will be giving the first of our seminars on marketing and salesmanship , with particular reference to leisure services and luxury products , to be followed by a discussion and work in groups . ’
23 Madam Gopal Singh , film writer and lecturer at Delhi University will be giving the Third Focus Forum keynote speech and introducing a screening SUBARNAREKHA .
24 To bolster his case for being given a second term — and to outflank the opposition Labor Party — prime minister Malcolm Fraser has announced new research initiatives in biotechnology , satellite research , industrial R&D and in the Antarctic .
25 LIKE the children he helps , Rod Jones is being given a second chance .
26 With a ground capacity of 6,000 , the intention is to make it an all-ticket match , with members being given the first option .
27 Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza .
28 Later that week we were given a first indication that the previous three ‘ greenhouse ’ winters may merely have been within the normal climatic variations and that a better season may be on its way , when the first Pitztal race was cancelled due to extreme cold !
29 When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment .
30 The red army fought in the courts and Swindon were given a second chance in the 2nd division .
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