Example sentences of "be given a [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 | you 're given a second chance . |
| 6 | His brother was to be given a second chance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She hopes soon after her penpal will be given a second chance to prove his innocence and escape the gas chamber . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | LIKE the children he helps , Rod Jones is being given a second chance . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The red army fought in the courts and Swindon were given a second chance in the 2nd division . |
| 18 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 19 | " Chaucer " is the only interrupted character who is made to take the opportunity to tell a second tale , although the Monk , too , in this same fragment , is given a second chance . |
| 20 | It was given a second one after the interval . |
| 21 | The Bill was given a Third Reading on 20th July and became law on 14th August , 1855 , with the short title , The Downing Street Public Offices Extension Act 1855 , but it was not until the following March that the Office of Works circulated the necessary notices to the tenants of property to be acquired . |
| 22 | They made one minor amendment on timing ; it was given a Third Reading on 5th April , and sent to the Lords . |
| 23 | The Bill was given a Third Reading in the House of Lords on 26 October 1965 by 169 votes to 75 . |