Example sentences of "[vb -s] given [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
2 | Since the report was printed the committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken at the end of this afternoon 's session for our colleagues involved in the dispute . |
3 | The committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken at the end of congress on Monday to help these colleagues as well . |
4 | The committee has given permission for the bucket collection to be taken on behalf of our colleagues at at the end of the Tuesday morning session . |
5 | The committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken on behalf of the Matthew trust fund at the end of the Wednesday morning session . |
6 | The government has given permission for the plant to go ahead in the face of sustained opposition from environmentalists , church groups , and the local Lumad tribal people , to whom the mountain is sacred . |
7 | Sedgefield District Council , we hear , has given permission for a clairvoyancy evening at Spennymoor leisure centre . |
8 | Darlington Council has given permission for Conder Projects to develop an office block on Russell Street car park just outside the ring road halving its total spaces . |
9 | Pruning go-ahead : Darlington Borough Council , which is responsible for tree felling , has given permission for extensive pruning work to be done on an oak tree at Hawkswood in Hurworth Place . |
10 | A Government inspector has given permission for a mixed development including a food superstore on land formerly occupied by Octavius Atykinson at Starbeck , Harrogate , following a public inquiry and local plan inquiry . |
11 | A Paris conference on the Amazon forests has given publicity to the continuing destruction of the area . |
12 | She has given voice to those who thought that previous Conservative governments had been too tolerant or ‘ defeatist ’ about the unions , the welfare state , high taxation , and public spending , and too accommodating to other countries , particularly in the European Community and the Commonwealth . |
13 | In this sense it is significant that , unlike in France and Britain , no politician of note has given voice to the growing disquiet in Germany about the move in Europe towards a Federalist state . |
14 | Ms Duffield has given money to Dulwich 's education activities in the past ; the present gift is intended to enable the gallery to survive for a year while it coordinates its long-term fundraising activities . |
15 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
16 | Douglas Roaf has given money for the Physical Sciences , and an anonymous donor for the Biological Sciences . |
17 | The bitch that whelps her pups beyond the margins of village life has given birth to potentially feral dogs . |
18 | He said , ‘ What a breed of people two hundred years of imperialism has given birth to . |
19 | A GRANDMOTHER has given birth to test-tube twins . |
20 | The new year has given birth to what could be a powerful new combo : AT&T and Novell . |
21 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
22 | The conflict itself has given birth to new violations of human rights , which have , in turn , been the impetus for further fighting ’ ( Hewitt , 1982:153 ) . |
23 | TV PRESENTER Anne Diamond has given birth to a boy — her first child since her son Sebastian died tragically in his cot . |
24 | A DELIGHTED woman has given birth to healthy sextuplets , seven years after she and her husband first tried to have a baby . |
25 | In eastern Germany a female wolf has given birth to a cub for the first time in decades . |
26 | A woman they called Supermum has given birth to her fourteenth child . |
27 | Another of the group 's rescued ponies , Cola , has given birth to a foal which is being named Derek . |
28 | Another of the group 's rescued ponies , Cola , has given birth to a foal which is being named Derek . |
29 | A mother who gave up fertility drugs after they failed to bring results has given birth to triplets . |
30 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |