Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 2 | Children at St Aloysius College are given a home work diary which their parents must sign every day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not surprising then that school plays ( ‘ theatre ’ ) must in practice be given a low priority . |
| 7 | FLOOD-hit caravan parks on the North Wales coast were given a £175,000 fillip last night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | RESEARCH programmes at a North Wales college were given a big cash boost last night . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Palace Pageant 's trainer Ian Balding is hoping the colt is given a chance in next week 's Brittania Handicap at Royal Ascot . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Each term in the search is given a " weight " which is determined by its relative frequency in the file being searched . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So , each size and style of font is given a unique number out of the 32767 available . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 … . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As I happened to discover casually ( not a great discovery ) , the same pamphlet was given a new frontispiece and a new tit ] e in 1747 . |
| 26 | For this look , the wig was given a weave and spiral cut to break up the basic exterior shape . |
| 27 | FORD 'S Mondeo car was given a huge boost yesterday when the car rental company Hertz placed a £10 million order . |
| 28 | On Dec. 21 , 1989 , exactly a year after the Lockerbie bombing [ see pp. 26409-10 ] , a Palestinian identified as a suspect in the crime was given a life sentence by a court in Uppsala , Sweden , having been with three others with terrorist offences in Sweden , Denmark and the Netherlands in 1985-86 [ see p. 37137 ] . |
| 29 | Prior to the council , Lawyer was given a paper proclaiming him head chief of the Nez Perce . |
| 30 | The Council 's longstanding interest in the Scottish Steel Industry was given a higher priority by the decision of British Steel to close the hot strip mill at Ravenscraig in early 1991 and the indications were that the rest of Ravenscraig would cease operations in 1994 . |