Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 2 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 3 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 4 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 5 | There is also a free three year Maintenance Plan , where you are given next day on-site support with the option of claiming £50.00 compensation per day should Ti'Ko fail to meet this obligation . |
| 6 | Usually , when a person is asked to provide a report he or she is given a brief which provides the terms of reference . |
| 7 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 8 | He or she was given considerable powers , and had to be consulted by LEAs over their general development plans and any specific proposals to establish , close or alter schools ( this changed under the 1980 Act ) . |
| 9 | If the ulcer had healed , the patient started a maintenance regimen of ranitidine ( 150 mg at night ) otherwise he or she was given an additional supply of ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) . |
| 10 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 11 | What we had was basically method things where we were given lots of experimental things we would do in the laboratory , but no real philosophy behind it , no sod of follow through . |
| 12 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 13 | Most of the refugees who arrived after Hungary opened its border with Austria on 11 September , and aboard the special trains last week , have been taken to reception camps where they are given West German citizenship papers and DM200 ( £66 ) . |
| 14 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 15 | Some companies farm out elderly executives to a convenient backwater where they are given a lofty title — Senior Vice President in Charge of Something Unimportant . |
| 16 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 17 | The Kayan and the Penan peoples are being encouraged — some would say coerced — into leaving their scattered forest homes and nomadic lives to settle in larger communities where they are given schools and clinics and telephones … and jobs in the timber industry . |
| 18 | It is not just evident in the theme parks , but in the design of back offices , too , where they are giving a message to employees that this is what the company is about . ’ |
| 19 | The tour included a visit to the SCOTVEC offices where they were given an overview of SCOTVEC 's role and functions . |
| 20 | Both had to be rushed to Arrowe Park hospital 's resuscitation unit where they were given oxygen . |
| 21 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 22 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 23 | We rushed him to the veterinary hospital , where he was given an antidote which should have worked within 20 minutes . |
| 24 | He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome . |
| 25 | Amenhotep , who had been found with a garland of flowers still round his neck , went by train , first class sleeper , where he was given the top bunk . |
| 26 | His practical training started at his father 's mill , where he was given a lathe and built small working steam engines . |
| 27 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 28 | Clearly assistance is not given to all kin invariably and whatever the circumstances , but are there certain relationships where it is given almost automatically ? |
| 29 | After a detailed survey a large area of stone was removed to the Dorset County Museum where it is given pride of place . |
| 30 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |