Example sentences of "[noun sg] be give [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Those in the last category are given least priority , though that does not mean they are never funded . ’ |
| 2 | If our democracy is to retain popular support and respect , it seems vital that the 60pc of voters regularly voting for change are given some opportunity to bring their ideals and values to bear on society . |
| 3 | Dendrochronology and infra-red photography are giving surprising results among Netherlandish paintings at the Metropolitan Museum |
| 4 | Good progress is being made in new drug research and development and early clinical trials of an orally administered anti-cancer drug and a new diagnostic agent are giving encouraging results . |
| 5 | These are haunting and elegiac poems , in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form . |
| 6 | Should not one of the objectives of our privatisation programme be to give British Coal , or whoever the private company may be , the freedom to produce electricity from its coal and to sell that electricity through the national grid ? |
| 7 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 8 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 9 | In the spirit of this policy , no application from a disabled but otherwise qualified candidate will be rejected because of his or her disablement without the applicant being given full opportunity to see the facilities of the University and to discuss with appropriate staff how particular difficulties might be overcome . |
| 10 | In New South Wales , for example , 1992 is Country Yarn and the Association is giving free workshops for members in areas which request this . |
| 11 | The intense threat of further isolation is given cultural formulation in the concept of sasoo possession , and individual expression in withdrawal and even suicide . |
| 12 | The wise heads realised that when a side is given such consistent attacking time points must be scored . |
| 13 | The subjective threat perceived in rejection by a spouse or lawyer is given cultural expression and concrete content in the concept of sasoo , which refers to a malevolent mara ’ called a ‘ sasoo woman ’ or ‘ sasoo man ’ , that may attack the rejected party . |
| 14 | The purpose of this chapter is to give some hints on how to comment on tables such as might be found in government summary publications . |
| 15 | An important way of encouraging vigorous competition in the brewing industry is to give regional brewers the chance to expand . |
| 16 | The solution to problem ( a ) should be relatively straightforward in economies where information on changes in the cost of living is given prominent news coverage when up to date figures become available and where labour is organized under the umbrella of trades unions with sizable economic research departments . |
| 17 | It 's traditional at the Cambridge Arts and our review is given extra impetus by an equally blue send-up of the pantomime , performed for our benefit by the crew . |
| 18 | But by the detective novel I mean a book in which the puzzle element is reduced and in which the characters are a good deal more lifelike than those which the blueprint puzzle merchants needed and in which the element of character drawing is given much more weight . |
| 19 | The television experiment was given greater significance , however , by the recent radical changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ; at the time when TV Martí began transmitting the Castro regime appeared more beleaguered and vulnerable to outside subversion than at any time since the early 1960s . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He saw the possibilities , contacted the manufacturers with the help of the BBC , and as a result was given two sets of the equipment . |
| 22 | It used to be assumed that the barbarians were settled according to the Roman practice of billeting , whereby a soldier was given one-third of a house . |
| 23 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 24 | Lowland fear of the Highland Scots was another powerful motive for Union , but the effect was to give eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotsmen opportunities in the British Empire that had previously been closed to them . |
| 25 | The putsch set back the beginning of negotiations between the French government and the GPRA for a short while , but its ultimate effect was to give new momentum to the talks . |
| 26 | Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister 's decision to take legal action was given strong support by other Socialists , but criticized by some leading politicians of the centre-right , who argued that it might constitute a restriction of freedom of speech . |
| 28 | Contradictory discourses and practices within and between these agencies of socialization are given little serious attention . |
| 29 | They say they paid premium prices to a firm with exclusive rights to sell holidays to the Olympics , but in return were given appalling accomodation . |
| 30 | Under this head belongs every form of words by which , in speaking of a proposed measure of relief , an intimation is given that the time at which the proposal is made , whenever it may be , is too early for the purpose . |