Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] given [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the 35th area in England to be given this designation . |
| 2 | In a meeting in Washington with International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) Managing Director Michel Camdessus , Menem asked for Argentina to be given more time to make debt repayments to the Fund . |
| 3 | It is a readable account of the conflicts and policies of the early 1980s , and puts forward a strong case for local government to be given more power . |
| 4 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 5 | Many , of course , are not , and that would seem to increase the need for the advantaged children to be given some understanding of the harsh world in which many other children have to live . |
| 6 | This was ( and is ) a common practice in Italy , where even Italian actors are dubbed , often by entirely different people , and Dustin was by no means the first English-speaking star to be given another voice . |
| 7 | It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils . |