Example sentences of "[noun pl] be give a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only way that can be ensured , as the Minister recognised in our debate on pension schemes , is if the buy-outs are given a real opportunity to succeed .
2 Perhaps inevitably , this means that some of the detail of particular research has been omitted , but the general clarity of the articles and their accompanying lists of references are such that intelligent readers are given a clear view of their particular interests and encouraged to delve deeper should they wish .
3 The Institute 's famous ‘ double-tested ’ policy ensures readers are given an unbiased evaluation of food and consumer products
4 The Institute 's famous ‘ double-tested ’ policy ensures readers are given an unbiased evaluation of food and consumer products
5 From about the time of the invention of red-figure some black-figure vases are given a white slip covering the orange clay .
6 Here your eyes are given a difficult task to perform .
7 Other entries are given an uncommitted status .
8 The correct words are given a shaded background .
9 There is no length to a discussion , unlike a talk where speakers are given a specific time for delivery .
10 Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word .
11 Clients are given a huge piece of paper and paints with which they can unlock the feelings welling up inside them .
12 The muffled words were given a seductive rhythm by the drumming of the rain .
13 In education , schools were given a similar opportunity to opt out of local government control .
14 When the final text of the poem was published after its author 's death , readers were given a revised version .
15 One hour before intubation subjects were given an oral dose of ranitidine ( 300 mg ) , and acid suppression was maintained throughout the experiment by intravenous ranitidine ( 50 mg/ hour ) administered by a cannula ( Venflon size 17G ) sited in a forearm veing ( Fig 1 ) .
16 Professional reference material in schools is given a low priority .
17 Here , through the use of music , art and drama , very educationally disadvantaged youngsters are given a new insight into life .
18 Ex-prisoners are given a new lease on life by an unusual theatre group , says Sue Wilson
19 The East Layton Singers are to give an old-time music hall concert to raise funds for Great Stainton church .
20 The civic visitors were given an extensive tour of the showroom , factory , visitor centre and museum .
21 It is interesting to note that in the 1978 World Bank Report some communist countries were given a special category , ‘ centrallyplanned economies ’ .
22 BOXER Frank Bruno said he would ‘ pull no punches ’ in his campaign to help underprivileged young people when he joined more than 400 youngsters being given a new chance in life by the Prince 's Trust at a special promotion in Ayr yesterday .
23 Rats were given an intraperitoneal injection of BrdUrd ( 60 mg-kg body weight ) one hour before sacrifice .
24 In return , the Belgians were given a framed picture of Pride of Burgundy arriving in Dover in April .
25 These modern versions of Marxism are not attempting to reintroduce ‘ idealism ’ in which thought and ideas are given a central role in the determination of history .
26 Its narrator 's confessional outpourings are given an ironic descant by his obsession with James Buchanan , the 15th President of the US .
27 The county council said all children with special needs were given an individual programme and the LEA looked for a wide range of experience when recruiting .
28 Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere .
29 INDIA 'S cricketers were given a huge confidence-booster this week … by the England selectors !
30 These ideas were given a great push forward by the increasing impact of American thinking on British social policy from the late 1960s onward .
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