Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] given the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be why Mr Houghton has given the job of turning round the kitchenware business to Richard Dulude . |
| 2 | Agriculture minister John Gummer has given the go-ahead to the establishment of a new Central Science Laboratory on a greenfield site at Sand Hutton , near York . |
| 3 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 4 | WIGAN 'S Martin Dermott has given the new season the ‘ Big E ’ — by dislocating his elbow just weeks before kick off . |
| 5 | Three months after Mr Day sought official clearance , Mr Walker has given the go-ahead . |
| 6 | For the 16 valve GTi , Rover has given the 1.4 litre K-series engine multi-point fuel injection and , despite the addition of a standard catalyst , it delivers 104 bhp and 94lb of torque at 5,000 rpm . |
| 7 | Colonel John Wilson has given the club immense service , having been President for the last 10 years immediately following 23 years as Match Secretary . |
| 8 | The Senate of Hamburg has given the go-ahead for the redevelopment of the museum area near its central station . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the ERA has given the Secretary of State considerable powers . |
| 10 | ‘ Paddy Ashdown has given the kiss-of-life to an ailing Prime Minister , ’ said Labour front-bencher John Prescott . |
| 11 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 12 | Paleokrassas has given the Department of Transport two months to disprove the allegation , after signing a " reasoned opinion " which would provide the basis for EC lawyers to start legal action against Britain . |
| 13 | Mr Dayton has given the Institute many of its finest oils , by Manet ( ‘ The Smoker ’ , 1866 ) , Matisse ( ‘ Pensées de Pascal ’ , 1924 ) , Nicolas Mignard ( ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ , circa 1650 ) and van Goyen ( a riverscape at Utrecht , 1648 ) , along with works by Kandinsky , Kirchner , Bonnard and Mondrian . |
| 14 | Their response is , ‘ Then God has given the Gentiles also the gift of repentance leading to life . ’ |
| 15 | For Frith has given the fox and the weasel cunning hearts and sharp teeth and to the cat he has given silent feet and eyes that can see in the dark and they are gone away from Frith 's place to kill and devour all that belongs to El-ahrairah . " |
| 16 | Though not strictly a member of the cabinet , Mr Ozawa has given the prime minister considerable support and has in effect run the government 's day-to-day business . |
| 17 | A Friends of the Earth spokesman said : " Mr Justice Hutchison has given the government extremely wide powers to take our best open spaces and give any land they like in exchange . |
| 18 | Some Ministers believe the combination of Chris Patten , the chairman , and John Major has given the wrong signals : ‘ Patten and Major are sweet and sweet , whereas what this campaign needs is sweet and sour . ’ |
| 19 | National Federation of Anglers president Dave Bird has given the idea the thumbs-down . |
| 20 | Jack Charlton has given the Swindon winger Tony Galvin permission to pull out of the Republic of Ireland 's World Cup squad for next week 's final qualifier in Malta . |
| 21 | The DTI has given the polytechnic an award to establish a technology transfer programme for materials analysis and quality assurance , based on an XL40 scanning electron microscope supplied by Philips Analytical . |
| 22 | Michael Rayer has given the selectors so little excuse to drop him , has been so sound in all aspects of play , that he has consigned possibly the most dangerous prong of the Welsh attack to the replacements ' bench . |
| 23 | R. L. Poole has given the following hypothetical example to illustrate this : |
| 24 | The Treaty of Rome has given the Commission the power to take member states to the European Court of Justice for not implementing directives within the required timetable . |
| 25 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 26 | THE Crown Prosecution Service in London has given the authority for a case involving a number of articles seized under the Obscene Publications Act to proceed . |
| 27 | Hyundai has given the Lantra flagship a more lavish specification — air conditioning , leather-wrapped steering wheel , electric glass sunroof and new alloy wheels are all standard . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Howard has given the green light for a windfarm development on the edge of the Lake District National Park . |