Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be given a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 3 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 4 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 5 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 6 | New Zealand international hooker Duane Mann has also been given a deadline of next week to decide on his new deal . |
| 7 | A TEENAGER who slashed £1,500 worth of tyres at a Scarborough garage has now been given a job by his victim . |
| 8 | However this is a claim made solely on the evaluation of the IBM team and it has n't been given a stamp from the National Computer Security Centre . |
| 9 | This little town has recently been given a face-lift , and the white walls gleam attractively in the sun above the narrow pedestrianized streets . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , for a progenitor of such masterpieces as the Stations of the Cross in Westminster , Gill has never been given a retrospective of his sculpture , a void which the Barbican Art Gallery is filling with a collection of over 50 works in stone and related drawings , engravings , and contemporary photographs which reveal the paradoxical creativity of this artist , sensually spiritual and ascetically erotic . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 12 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 13 | They had found a small table tucked in between three long ones , and had already been given a jug of iced water , a long loaf , a pot of butter and a plate of olives . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 19 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 20 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 21 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 22 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 23 | A North Korean application to join the UN was rejected ; UNCOK was in just as invidious a position as UNTCOK except that South Korea had now been given a degree of recognition denied to North Korea . |
| 24 | One friend was Randolph Churchill , who had come out to Cairo originally with Layforce and had then been given a job of liaison with the press . |
| 25 | Poor Kate had never been given a chance to answer . |
| 26 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 27 | But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 30 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |