Example sentences of "being [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 2 | Schools are being given the chance to run themselves , and hospitals are being given that chance . |
| 3 | Throughout April about 1,000 fleet operators are being given the chance to put Peugeot 's entire diesel car range through its paces at various venues around the country , allowing road and track driving . |
| 4 | Above all , you need to take advantage of being given the chance to put your own point of view . |
| 5 | But how would the British react to being given the chance to air their views face to face with a politician ? |
| 6 | SMALL companies are being given the chance to share space at an exhibition to sell goods and services . |
| 7 | Not only was this the evidence of a wonderful and mysterious world in which I had no place , I was being given the chance to destroy the evidence . |
| 8 | Speaking at a student awards ceremony , Don Alexander , director at the Training and Employment Agency , said more people were now being given the chance to work in other countries . |
| 9 | But now they 're being given the chance to play and learn like normal children . |
| 10 | But he 's also being given the chance to take responsibility for them … to take control of his life before he ruins another . |
| 11 | Our forecaster Charlie Neil is being given the chance to bring you more detail on our region 's weather conditions , and sometimes a look ahead to local events . |
| 12 | Drivers are being given the chance to find out what it feels like to skid across an icy road into the side of a building — without risk of injury . |
| 13 | BUDDING young jazz musicians are being given the chance to shine with the launch this autumn of the Ulster Schools ' Jazz Orchestra . |
| 14 | Residents of the Jackson and Dyke House wards are being given the chance to set up a community newspaper . |
| 15 | Residents of the Jackson and Dyke House wards are being given the chance to set up a community newspaper . |
| 16 | WOULD-BE Barry Normans in Edinburgh are being given the chance to appear on a new movie review TV programme . |
| 17 | But now his gaily-coloured runabout 's being given the runaround by the Guiness Book of Records . |
| 18 | But now his gaily-coloured runabout 's being given the runaround by the Guiness Book of Records . |
| 19 | A strong Iranian presence throughout the period 479 — 334 is indicated by chance literary references , such as Herodotus , who refers not only to Persian individuals at Sardis before the Ionian Revolt from Persia of the 490s , but also to Persians being given the land round Miletus after the revolt ( v. 101 ; vi.20 ) . |
| 20 | It was surely repugnant to commonsense that in this area of legal activity a local authority should be prosecuted by one of its tenants without first being given the opportunity by that tenant to remedy the consequences of a neglect to repair the dwelling that the tenant occupied . |
| 21 | Make borrowing fair and honest ; bring bargaining between borrower and lender out into the open , with the borrower being given the opportunity to understand precisely what he was letting himself in for , and in that knowledge to make his choice . |
| 22 | A one-to-one visit is best , with a single patient at a time being given the opportunity to stroke the PAT dog . |
| 23 | In this case the highest tender was accepted , without other tenderers being given the opportunity to submit another offer on the basis of similar amendments to the original brief . |
| 24 | Now she was clearly being given the opportunity . |
| 25 | Connie said : ‘ We need an audience of at least 40 for the Sainsbury 's talk on May 12 and as usual anyone who is interested is welcome to come along — with members being given the opportunity of reduced prices . |
| 26 | ‘ Now once again we are being given the opportunity to demonstrate our professionalism in all its fields , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Radio Tanzania on Sept. 18 cited Diria as saying that both sides were being given the opportunity to go home and clarify their positions . |
| 28 | UNEMPLOYED women over 25 and living in Cleveland are being given the opportunity to join a free six-week course on media techniques . |
| 29 | I am not talking about hunting being given the name of culling , I am talking about situations where culling does really look to be the only way to save the vegetation . |
| 30 | But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration . |