Example sentences of "[be] given new " in BNC.

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1 Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child .
2 EMPLOYERS ARE to be given new powers to isolate union members who take part in unofficial strikes through selective sackings .
3 Local authorities will be given new powers over a second tier of less heavily polluting processes , which will only be allowed to take place after councils have imposed stringent operating conditions .
4 The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family .
5 As in Pearl , a stock phrase or cliché can at any moment be given new point .
6 Almond suggests a number of ways in which the ancient idea that the two sexes have — or should have — different moral outlooks can be given new life in the context of modern feminism .
7 M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works .
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