Example sentences of "be given an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales staff are given an opportunity to review their estimates when the current year 's figures are finalized in June , and the budget is then submitted to the Board for final approval . |
| 2 | The self regulatory requirements on management under the Health and Safety at Work Act should ensure that discipline is enforced and that all affected personnel are given an opportunity to maintain and improve their working environment . |
| 3 | Particularly important is the contribution that EA will make to ensure that unemployed people are given an opportunity to keep their work skills and work records up to date . |
| 4 | In addition to the publication of reports , seminars and workshops are held at which relevant members of industry , research organisations and the civil service are given an opportunity to discuss and make critical and constructive comment on draft reports or hear the recommendations and final results of research . |
| 5 | ( Interesting echoes of The Iron Man here — any drama is likely to contain elements of other stories from home or school ; it 's good if they are given an opportunity to make these their own . ) |
| 6 | They come in suspicious and uncertain and are given an adjustment period of up to 3 months . |
| 7 | Widows are given an allowance because they are deemed to have been financially dependent . |
| 8 | This equation is not easy to solve numerically as it stands ; however , if we are given an approximation unc to an eigenvalue , we write unc for the exact eigenvalue , which therefore satisfies ( 4 ) , so that we obtain |
| 9 | The problems came later , when you are given an exam paper : twenty questions to be answered within one hour ten minutes . |
| 10 | When the protagonist goes for ‘ psychoscopy ’ , we are given an illustration in concrete terms of how the diagnostic tools of this society condition their object : |
| 11 | But we are given an insight into the limitations of their cognitive capabilities when we observe a spider responding to a vibrating tuning fork by attempting to wrap it up for food . |
| 12 | Here we are given an insight into the painterly decisions — sacrifices — to which artists often feel driven . |
| 13 | Even in the first couple of lines in the book , we are given an image of a perfect island spoilt by humans and their actions . |
| 14 | ‘ Primary 4 and 5 are given an average of 60 minutes conscious homework each evening . |
| 15 | You are given an indication in brackets of the feeling or attitude expressed , and you must mark on the text the intonation you think is appropriate ( mark only the response ) . |
| 16 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 17 | Charlie could n't remember when he had last been given an order , let alone obeyed one . |
| 18 | You 've been given an invitation to the most magnificent show in the world . |
| 19 | You 've been given an invitation to fall in love . |
| 20 | The controversial new plant , which has not yet been given an operating licence [ see ED 64 ] , was to have supplied reprocessed plutonium to Japan for a 20-year period . |
| 21 | 17 You 've been given an award for your services to natural history . |
| 22 | The University of Reading has been given an award to investigate the relationship between shop property values and rates . |
| 23 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 24 | What is required … is , firstly , that there should be a fair review by the employer of the attendance record and the reasons for it ; and , secondly , appropriate warnings , after the employee has been given an opportunity to make representations . |
| 25 | ‘ I am particularly sad that my mother has not been given an opportunity even to purchase his Military Cross , ’ said Maxwell , who is now a job consultant after being made Britain 's biggest bankrupt , with £400 million debts . |
| 26 | The otter and its haunts are now protected by law too and so this lovely animal has been given an opportunity for a new lease of life . |
| 27 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |
| 28 | The drivers sought a declaration that the ban was invalid arguing , inter alia , that the ban was in breach of natural justice , since they had not been given an opportunity to make representations before the ban was imposed . |
| 29 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 30 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |