Example sentences of "that [subord] [pers pn] be give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph saw that although he was given evil he was able to turn it into goodness . |
| 2 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 3 | Of course the argument runs that until they 're given a run no-one knows quite what they can do . |
| 4 | The point to note about the above defences is that if they are given a wide construction by the courts ( and it is too soon to tell , as too few cases have been brought ) , then the risk of prosecution diminishes even further . |
| 5 | Little by little , however , MacDonald and his closest colleagues became convinced that if they were given the opportunity to form a Government it would be folly to turn it down . |
| 6 | The moral to be drawn is that if we are to give an account of knowledge which does not include a requirement of certainty , our account should make room for the notion of certainty somewhere ; if it sees certainty as a requirement for a knowledge claim it needs to be able to explain in its own terms why that should be so . |
| 7 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 8 | The only point that I would make is that if you are giving an opiate it will have many of the same effects and if I had to choose , I would probably prefer the opiate to diazepam . |
| 9 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 10 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
| 11 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 12 | The pools people argue that unless they are given ‘ a level playing field ’ to compete with the lottery , two of the three leading firms could go out of business , with the loss of thousands of jobs . |
| 13 | Now , the Family Health Services Authority has warned that unless it is given more money , prospective fundholders could be discouraged from joining the scheme . |
| 14 | I always feel that when he 's giving , , because he gives them to one , does n't charge for any |