Example sentences of "[noun] was give [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 2 | Paisley was given much credit for the win but his commitment to the party was considerably eroded when the defeated Labour candidate was given a post in the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 3 | And Andy was given half a day 's notice . |
| 4 | The Milton Keynes-based group , which kills 4,000 cattle and 25,000 sheep a week in the season , is expected to take an initiative in that area later this year , and Mr Canvin was giving little away in his address to the Safeway-sponsored Strathclyde Food Project seminar . |
| 5 | Wainfleet had not avoided the slur that Wickham was giving more attention to his private life than his professional and this accounted for the lack of progress in apprehending MacQuillan 's killer . |
| 6 | This is a marvellous example of how the new sociological dimension was giving some films a new prestige and a new relevance and thereby gaining Hollywood new friends . |
| 7 | Now once again we know about this because Edward Heath was given another job , just about nine months later , the king had decided he would summon a parliament in Oxford erm and in January '44 it was due to meet , but where were the members who were going to come into Oxford to stay . |
| 8 | In addition government control of the media ensured that the opposition 's campaign was given little coverage . |
| 9 | The Emperor Sigismund was given this huge enchanted horn by the Dwarfs after the battle of Grimgrill Dale . |
| 10 | I had n't long been back from my honeymoon when my new wife was given another fright . |
| 11 | In the New Forest evidence was given that : |
| 12 | There was an immediate inquiry at which evidence was given that Hunt had been running when the race was stopped , but not really racing . |
| 13 | In his judgment the magistrate said a large quantity of drugs , including pentobarbitone , had also been found and that evidence was given that it was used mostly for ‘ the humane euthanasia of badly injured or ill dogs or other animals . ’ |
| 14 | Although he was by no means a radical , he felt that the government 's best chance of maintaining its authority was to give more ground — literally — than it was promising to do . |
| 15 | Miss T. was given another dose of pethidine . |
| 16 | Jess was given all the floor scrubbing and lugging of coals , sharing with fat giggly Sally Dade , the housemaid , dusting , washing up , bedmaking and carrying hot-water jugs to the bedrooms . |
| 17 | Bevan resuscitated the suggestion in his report of July 1808 to the committee of the Grand Union , and two months later notice was given that an Act of Parliament would be sought for powers to build a canal southwards from Foxton . |
| 18 | In July 1831 notice was given that the partnership agreement between Peregrine Phillips senior , John Thorne , and Peregrine Phillips junior , was dissolved with respect to Phillips junior , although his father and Thorne carried on with the business . |
| 19 | None of the 55 patients was given any type of medical treatment during the study period and all were instructed to continue their normal dietary habits . |
| 20 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 21 | It was Easter when Wallis Simpson was given some ‘ awfully nice stones ’ whilst on holiday with the Prince of Wales in 1931 . |
| 22 | However , an assurance was given that , in order not to affect the living standards of those on low incomes , a list of 100 key products and services would be drawn up whose prices would be kept unchanged . |
| 23 | Warning was given that the ‘ Reds ’ were planning a violent demonstration to disrupt the proceedings . |
| 24 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 25 | If the centre was given some notice of the team 's arrival , and if the team were lead by a SCOTVEC officer , then not only would the profile of subject assessment be raised but the centre could use the presence of so many SCOTVEC staff in a positive way for staff development purposes . |
| 26 | Over the next two decades it was rebuilt to include many fine Georgian houses and in 1725 the then humble parsonage was given this handsome new front by an unknown architect . |
| 27 | PREMIER John Major was given some Christmas cheer last night when top economists forecast economic revival in Britain next year . |
| 28 | Had the man who wrote the foreword been at No. 10 in those days he would doubtless have seen to it that this cricketer who displayed such honourable patriotism and high personal standards was given some decoration or other . |
| 29 | In reality , Diana was given less training in her new job than the average supermarket checkout operator . |
| 30 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |