Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] the chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our society needs to be given the chance to hear its own heartbeat in its own music — for pleasure first , then also for knowledge and understanding . |
| 2 | People had to be given the chance to exercise choice over schooling , hospital treatment , and housing . |
| 3 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 4 | In his most passionate tones yet , Mr Major delivered his Ten Tory Truths and his personal plea to be given the chance to build a ‘ golden future ’ for Britain . |
| 5 | All children need to be given the chance to create things by means of the new technologies . |
| 6 | ‘ It 'd be nice for her to be given the chance to make a suggestion or two . ’ |
| 7 | She was n't going to be given the chance . |
| 8 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 9 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 10 | SPRINTER Jason Livingston , banned for four years by the British Athletics Federation , is to be given the chance of a new career as a footballer . |
| 11 | They 'll know , they 're not going to give , they 're not going to be given the chance to say er , er ‘ you ca n't have any more ’ , no . |
| 12 | Vernon Bogdaner a reader in government at the University and a Fellow of Brasenose College , says he too is in favour of P R , and wants the electorate to be given the chance to vote on the issue . |
| 13 | In the primary care sector of the NHS , general practitioners ( GPs ) with large practices are to be offered the chance to control their own budgets and to buy hospital services on behalf of their patients . |