Example sentences of "to [be] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends like to be given something you 've taken time and trouble to make for them . ’ |
| 2 | The right to the ‘ pursuit of happiness ’ and the right to an ‘ adequate standard of living ’ are dead opposites , as opposite as the right to pursue something and the right to be given something , as opposite as the demand for minimum compulsion in society and the demand for maximum compulsion . |
| 3 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 4 | It 's time for sports followers to be given their say . |
| 5 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was not possible , in construing the expression ‘ any person ’ in section 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , to identify any particular limitation which could be said to represent the presumed intention of Parliament in enacting the legislation , and the words had to be given their literal meaning , unrestricted as to persons or territory ; and that the court , therefore , had jurisdiction under section 238 to make an order against a foreigner resident abroad ; that , having regard to the unambiguous terminology of rule 12.12(1) of the Insolvency Rules 1986 , the jurisdiction deriving from it to order service out of the jurisdiction was not to be confined , by analogy , to cases falling within R.S.C. , Ord. 11 , r. 1(1) ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order would be set aside and the registrar 's order restored ( post , pp. 701A–D , 702E–F , 704C–D , G , H , 705B ) . |
| 7 | With a heavy heart , Berry sat in an ante-room watching as a stream of employees were called in to be given their pink dismissal slips . |
| 8 | The processes of denial and anger have to be given their place before proper grieving can begin . |
| 9 | Peasants were to be given their household plots , but had to pay for them . |
| 10 | In the Amazon , the numbers of Indians declined , ceasing to be a threat to western expansion , so that by the second half of the last century , they were becoming more of a curiosity , regarded as anachronistic impediments to progress , which had to be educated on Christian lines on the one hand , the true lords of the territory to be given their freedom on the other . |
| 11 | In fact it is the hard men up front who are likely to be given their head , and any idea of a no-strike deal will be ruthlessly opposed . |
| 12 | I pray that the Faculty will continue to be given its part in New Jersey . ’ |
| 13 | The word ‘ obtained ’ had to be given its broader meaning ie. one could obtain not only as a result of purpose or effort , but also through passive receipt or acceptance . |
| 14 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
| 15 | One can understand why people at risk should wish to have these things , but not why they should expect to be given them free . |
| 16 | After reports in the Washington Post that the ICRC and UN field workers had hired several thousand local " mercenaries " to protect food distribution operations , the ICRC on May 8 issued a statement to the effect that " local relief committees " organized by the clans and sub-clans were acting as a " police force " ; a small amount of the food aid was to be given them as " food for work " . |
| 17 | And what about Elizabeth Murray who has yet to be given her due in any European exhibition of contemporary art . |
| 18 | If he was n't given a medal , he asked to be given one . |
| 19 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 20 | You have n't ans answered my question Mr Chairman , I asked you why did the Council vote to this museum on the Norfolk enquired by trust which to be given you by the Suffolk Authority Wild Life Trust |
| 21 | Paul Manville had to be given his due — he could not have chosen a more apt record to convey his message . |
| 22 | Off stage , he 's not exactly full of the joys of life either , despite being the latest comic to be given his own Channel 4 series . |
| 23 | Robert , my stepson , is not to be given his grandfather 's inheritance until he is thirty . |
| 24 | Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows . |
| 25 | The Brighton-based fighter , who stopped Benn in their WBO middleweight title fight in November 1990 , added : I 've nothing to prove by fighting Benn again , so if we do meet I 've got to be given my passport to retirement . ’ |
| 26 | In the eighteenth century it was more and more usual for an ambassador accredited to any of the greatest European courts to be given it , irrespective of how long he stayed there or what his duties were . |
| 27 | He went back to the cage and concentrated on Bobo , because she seemed to be giving him more attention and was sitting close up to the bars . |
| 28 | It is in the management of effective communications that ‘ parents know best ’ and this is the area where we need to be giving them the very best of our attention . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll have to be giving them cocaine instead of whiskey . ’ |
| 30 | Pickering 's second half goal seemed to be giving them three points , but the sending off of Mick Tait for his second bookable offence and then a defensive lapse allowed Stuart Rimmer to score the equaliser . |