Example sentences of "be give to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway who has followed the actions of the opposition in Bremen or Hamburg in recent years can hardly avoid the conclusion that the Christian Democrats ( the opposition ) are not interested in gaining power ( since lucrative public positions are given to them anyway ) … |
| 2 | Directors are treated as being in a position analogous to that of trustees , so powers conferred upon them are given to them in a fiduciary capacity . |
| 3 | The polyptych of St-Germain records one group of 14 women ( ancillae ) who " if supplies of material are given to them , make shirts " . |
| 4 | The phenomena it explains are given to us in experience ; they are not produced by us , their causes are not directly knowable , and we can only hypothesize , in the terms of our theoretical framework , about what they are . |
| 5 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 6 | If these are given to us as actual temptations , there is no less of temptation in the resounding sentence that is the last but one of the portrait . |
| 7 | Technology suppliers to the British hotel and restaurant industry say that their products are often under-exploited , because too little thought has been given to what the systems are supposed to achieve and too low a priority is given to staff training . |
| 8 | The planning system invites intelligent use and foresight : it is surprising how many cases have got to within three or four weeks of a public inquiry with no serious thought having been given to what evidence should be presented in favour of the proposals . |
| 9 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 10 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
| 11 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 12 | That is not the advice that has been given to me . |
| 13 | Well I gave him all the information that had been given to me and we discussed between us various options that were open to us . |
| 14 | ‘ Peter keeps uttering things over the years saying copyright has been given to him , that there was a letter , a document , but they 've never been produced . ’ |
| 15 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 16 | He claimed he had not signed the document properly because , it having been given to him by a ‘ gentleman ’ , he was too nervous to do so . |
| 17 | It had been given to him , the devil claimed . ’ |
| 18 | been given to him at baptism ( Luke 3:22 ) ; |
| 19 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
| 20 | First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him . |
| 21 | Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix implied the document had been given to him by a friend . |
| 22 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 23 | The pupil knows that all the information required has been given to him . |
| 24 | Full instructions and documentation have been given to him . |
| 25 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 26 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 27 | The fundamental rationale underlying the law of confidence is that it can prevent a person divulging information which has been given to him in confidence , on an express or implicit understanding that the information should not be disclosed to others or otherwise used by the recipient of the information . |
| 28 | Even so , she had to pretend to like it , particularly because it had been given to her by her father . |
| 29 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 30 | It had been given to her in case an emergency arose , but it seemed to Mrs Blakey that the atmosphere which had developed in the house could n't be called an emergency . |