Example sentences of "the [noun] be [be] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | As counting got underway , the election was being given qualified approval by international observers . |
| 2 | Erm all the all the sites are are given a code what that that one actually is . |
| 3 | In the group receiving oxygen there was a mean saturation of 95.4% before gastroscopy and 97.5% during the procedure when the oxygen was being given — this represents a significant increase ( p<0.001 ; 95% confidence intervals ( CIs ) for the difference between the means : 1.47 to 2.73 ) . |
| 4 | A Chariot of the Sun is being given to you … |
| 5 | Full details of the NVQs are being given in the CIOB 's continuing series of seminars for centres and other interested organisations . |
| 6 | By contrast , even those who have spent all of their working lives with Leyland in the UK are being given no more than the minimum provided by the state . |
| 7 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 8 | The advice is being given in a course run by the police and a local authority to help children learn how to deal with strangers . |
| 9 | A new era of austerity starts in April 1994 , and the next 12 months looks like an all-too-brief inter-regnum in which the economy is being given a chance to grow again before the tax blows begin to fall . |
| 10 | The patients were being given yucca roots and chayote fruits as the main meal of the day and there was no milk available for the babies . |
| 11 | It is easy but improper to assert , when no other convenient explanation presents itself , that the intentions of the testator are being given full rein . |
| 12 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 13 | As the passing of the Bill is being given such high priority , will the Leader of the House guarantee that all the evidence will be put before the Committee — that some of it will not be suppressed , as the Secretary of State suppressed evidence put forward by colleges of further education ? |
| 14 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 16 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 18 | Dog-eared it may be , but the idea is being given a new lease of life by the rapprochement between the Soviet Union and South Korea , the thaw in relations between Japan and North Korea , and now a likely peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 20 | It is running late ; it is overcrowded ( with expert consultants ) ; and the public is being given no information about its route . |
| 21 | Feeling there was a gap in the market between what was good advice on skin care and what the public was being given , she interviewed leading New York dermatologists and wrote a very honest feature entitled ‘ Can a Great Skin be Created ? ’ |
| 22 | The residents are being given a bad time . |
| 23 | But tenants taking advantage of the system are being given their marching orders . |
| 24 | The system was being given the highest priority by the BR board , it said . |
| 25 | Anti-drugs projects in the region are being given a cash boost of around sixty-five thousand pounds . |