Example sentences of "not [be] given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 2 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 3 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
| 4 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 5 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
| 6 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 7 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 8 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 9 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 10 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 11 | He 's not been given a legal decision , he 's passed an opinion , saying oh , this , this woman , was , you know , encouraging the man , and things like that , and that 's what gets people 's backs up , I think . |
| 12 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |
| 13 | Such is the fluid nature of the Hindu syncretism that the unifying power behind the gods can not be given a single name . |
| 14 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
| 15 | If dialogue is being taped in stereo , the signals from the individual speakers should not be given a pronounced left and right stereo bias as this would conflict with the performers ' relative positioning as seen in shot . |
| 16 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ he smiled apologetically , ‘ I 'm afraid you would not be given a hearing . ’ |
| 18 | Illiterate people can not be given a questionnaire , though they may , of course , be interviewed . |
| 19 | They may define positions that have often been repeated , but they can not be given a timeless quality . |
| 20 | If the body is a small one , the younger hunters may not be given a share . |
| 21 | I should make it clear that my construction did not depend upon the children of the staff taking up surplus places in the sense that if there were sufficient fee paying pupils , the staff 's children would not be given a place . |
| 22 | In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up . |
| 23 | emphasized that persons should not be given a right to attend eg. the Press , who could state that they were very interested in embalming . |
| 24 | Here thoughts about Lucy and about gems are active together and can not be given a satisfactory literal translation describing exactly the degree of similarity between Lucy and a gem . |
| 25 | Ferrari spokesman Franco Liistro said : ‘ It 's the same vice again of the defendant not being given a hearing . |
| 26 | So for all these journalists to cry foul because they 're not being given a plane and they 're not being allowed to fly in — I think that 's just a bunch of bullshit . |
| 27 | Tension over the status of the territory continued in 1990 , continuing allegations from Logologofolau that his elected colleagues , together with the traditional chiefs , were not being given a sufficient say in decision-making by the French-appointed Chief Administrator . |
| 28 | ‘ I am very unhappy that public representatives and ratepayers are not being given a true picture . ’ |
| 29 | Yesterday a dream died in Galway … a dream which had been born in the heady , optimistic days of the early 1970s when bright-eyed youngsters leaving school walked in the doors of the Digital plant and more often than not were given a job . |