Example sentences of "be give [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Facilities for pedestrians and those for cyclists are given their own chapters , and there is a chapter devoted to new residential development .
2 Carel Weight , a surprising choice , Ivon Hitchens , in the centenary of his birth , Adrian Stokes and Barbara Hepworth are given their own rooms .
3 Under the fundholding arrangements , doctors are given their own budgets to spend .
4 It is capitalist , and everybody will , would 've been given their own land .
5 Another new boy , Nick Raynsford , has been given his own single room — an extremely prized possession , even among long-serving MPs — on the shadow cabinet corridor .
6 And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train .
7 Not bad , eh , when you 're giving your all for your country ?
8 Each additional storey may be given its own roof so that eventually the building looks like a Chinese pagoda .
9 Each strategy will be given its own management team , which will be expected to work out all the effects over the whole company , including estimates of resource requirements for each subsidiary business .
10 However , it can be given its own physical interpretation through its role in eqn ( 20.7 ) .
11 Off stage , he 's not exactly full of the joys of life either , despite being the latest comic to be given his own Channel 4 series .
12 The pupil can be given his own strategy to follow which will help him to learn .
13 Within a few days of opening your account you will be given your own cheque book .
14 Not only have I never been mobbed at Sainsbury 's but I had been assured that the likes of Sheridan Morley and Julia Mackenzie would be giving their all .
15 Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest .
16 The new pattern that will gradually take shape towards the end of this century is of a centrally determined national curriculum , individual schools being given their own budgets to spend as they think fit within the legally required curriculum framework .
17 Mark , who has been blind from birth , has had a meteoric rise in radio broadcasting , being given his own show less than a year after joining Radio Cleveland as a reporter .
18 But I , I had no idea that he then had to be that , being given his own funding , he then had to be organized by a committee .
19 When this happened they were given their own temple and , of course , in the temples were altars such as the one on the reverse of the coin .
20 The fact that his choices have been criticised in their communities for collaborating with apartheid ever since Indians and coloureds — but not blacks — were given their own chambers in 1984 suggests that the president had difficulty finding anyone willing to join a government nearing the end of its life .
21 His voice sounded lazily relaxed , but his eyes , in spite of the smile , were giving her such exciting messages that Kate , under his spell as never before , could feel her heart once more begin to beat with a heavy , sensuous rhythm .
22 After a consultation , colour is applied and the client is given her own clock to time the development .
23 Each lexical item is given its own card and is filed alphabetically .
24 In the first case , each text is given its own header , with any material common to all texts being factored out to an overall corpus header .
25 If a pianist is particularly charming and quite gifted , his failure to win the competition need not trouble him ; money is raised privately among local citizens , and he is given his own Carnegie Hall recital , perhaps , or his own scholarship to the Conservatoire in Paris , with a living allowance to provide for ‘ a minimally decent standard of living ’ — a phrase used in Forth Worth to describe what British people might call an upper middle-class lifestyle .
26 For what finding out the truth means is getting true beliefs for ourselves ; and what telling it means is giving our own true beliefs to other people — often of course ( though as we shall see , by no means always ) by making true statements .
27 Once a definitive picture of it was produced , it was given its own phylum .
28 As the result of some petty altercation with the Bishop of St Peter 's , that church was ‘ demoted ’ by the king into the parish of St Pancras , and St Paul 's was given its own separate parish .
29 The theatre was given its own legal status in the Theatres Act 1968 , but the anomalous position of the cinema was not revealed until 1975 , when the President and Secretary of the BBFC were charged with aiding and abetting an indecent exhibition , namely the showing by Classic Cinemas Ltd of the Swedish sex-education film Language of Love .
30 Each member of staff ( approximately 160 people ) was given their own personal A5 folder complete with ‘ ROADCARE SIMPLY THE BEST LOGO ’ and an eight page booklet entitled ‘ Commercial Awareness ’ .
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