Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midlands club are giving a two-week trial next month to South Africa 's top player , Doctor Kumalo , a midfielder with Kaiser Chiefs . |
| 2 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 3 | Children at St Aloysius College are given a home work diary which their parents must sign every day . |
| 4 | All patients new to the practice are given a temporary folder , which is stamped with the date that the permanent notes were requested from the family health services authority . |
| 5 | The validity claims involved in the form of communicative action are given a ‘ quasi-transcendental ’ status because they are present in communication even if obscured by distortion : |
| 6 | An innkeeper has a lien for his charges upon the traveller 's goods brought to the inn , and , contrary to the usual rule , has by statute been given a power of sale over such goods . |
| 7 | It is not surprising then that school plays ( ‘ theatre ’ ) must in practice be given a low priority . |
| 8 | FLOOD-hit caravan parks on the North Wales coast were given a £175,000 fillip last night . |
| 9 | Those with tumour regrowth requiring laser energy of around 5000 J or more and those with a stricture that would not immediately allow passage of an endoscope were given a follow up appointment at four to six weeks for repeat laser endoscopy . |
| 10 | RESEARCH programmes at a North Wales college were given a big cash boost last night . |
| 11 | ‘ The club were given a deadline of November 29 1991 for confirmation of the terms agreed with their agents , but the agents have recently confirmed that the club no longer wish to purchase the property . ’ |
| 12 | Since the environmental rhythm is giving a time-cue to the organism it is called a zeitgeber ( from the German , Zeit — time ; geber — to give ) . |
| 13 | Palace Pageant 's trainer Ian Balding is hoping the colt is given a chance in next week 's Brittania Handicap at Royal Ascot . |
| 14 | In juxtapositions such as large bony vine , clumsy black headstocks , dishevelled pink chrysanthemums , the associations of adjectives seem to interact , so that , for example , pink is given a tawdry overtone by its neighbour dishevelled . |
| 15 | Royal Mail is giving a package of technical support and advice worth £3,500 as a first prize , to enable the winner to make the best use of postcodes in her business . |
| 16 | Each term in the search is given a " weight " which is determined by its relative frequency in the file being searched . |
| 17 | A longer term goal of the research is to give a general mathematical formulation of how people allocate their thinking resources and to explore the implications for economic behaviour . |
| 18 | There are weekly visits , once a month the inmate is given a weekend leave , and once every six months is allowed home for a week . |
| 19 | If the teacher 's intention is to give a general overview or introduction to a topic , then less detail will be needed . |
| 20 | In addition , to allow for the fact that some criteria will be more important to the company than some others , each criterion is given a weighting on a scale of 1 to 10 . |
| 21 | In addition , to allow for the fact that some criteria will be more important to the company than some others , each criterion is given a weighting on a scale of 1 to 10 . |
| 22 | So , each size and style of font is given a unique number out of the 32767 available . |
| 23 | The Janus Ensemble is to give a concert , Masters of the Baroque , using authentic instruments , at the Georgian Theatre Royal , Richmond , on March 13 at 7.30pm . |
| 24 | In some cases such multiple choice items form attitude scales in which each alternative is given a numerical weighting so that a set of such items can be cumulated to give the respondent an overall score on the scale . |
| 25 | ‘ A journalist was given a briefing by the council 's acting Press Officer , Nick Clayton , on the general Scottish Office guidelines for dealing with child sexual abuse … . |
| 26 | The fact is , however , that OW was given a supervised work training placement , helping care workers in a centre for the mentally handicapped for two days a week . |
| 27 | THE official launch of WINCH , the Wirral Initiative for Needy Children , at Tranmere Rovers Football Club was given a healthy start , thanks to £1,000 donation from BNFL . |
| 28 | After lunch in the restaurant Her Majesty was given a guided tour of the house by Director-General Angus Stirling which included opportunities to meet the donor , Mr. Henry Harpur-Crewe . |
| 29 | In an open letter to the government , 72 senior expatriate scientists representing Britain 's ‘ brain drain ’ gave warning of severe economic and social consequences unless scientific research was given a higher priority . |
| 30 | Each tooth was given a score of 0 , 1 , 2 , 6 , or 8 depending on the degree of periodontal disease ; the index was the arithmetic average of all the teeth that were scored . |