Example sentences of "not [be] given a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 2 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 3 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 4 | If the body is a small one , the younger hunters may not be given a share . |
| 5 | Illiterate people can not be given a questionnaire , though they may , of course , be interviewed . |
| 6 | emphasized that persons should not be given a right to attend eg. the Press , who could state that they were very interested in embalming . |
| 7 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 8 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
| 9 | I should make it clear that my construction did not depend upon the children of the staff taking up surplus places in the sense that if there were sufficient fee paying pupils , the staff 's children would not be given a place . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ he smiled apologetically , ‘ I 'm afraid you would not be given a hearing . ’ |
| 11 | So for all these journalists to cry foul because they 're not being given a plane and they 're not being allowed to fly in — I think that 's just a bunch of bullshit . |
| 12 | Ferrari spokesman Franco Liistro said : ‘ It 's the same vice again of the defendant not being given a hearing . |
| 13 | Yesterday a dream died in Galway … a dream which had been born in the heady , optimistic days of the early 1970s when bright-eyed youngsters leaving school walked in the doors of the Digital plant and more often than not were given a job . |