Example sentences of "[noun] [be] give [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Applicants with appropriate previous study and/or experience are given exemption from part of the Course and students wishing to transfer from another institution are welcomed , subject to numbers .
2 The study concludes that up to 10 per cent of roads are giving way at the edges , requiring what is known as " haunch repairs " .
3 If they are , these words are given priority over the other alternatives available for each word position .
4 Support for this interpretation has been sought in the effects of a procedure in which subjects are given pre-exposure to a variety of flavours .
5 The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 .
6 States used them to discover whether schools were giving value for money .
7 Delays for defendants in trials on indictment were giving cause for concern in 1975 , when the James Committee reported , but at that stage over 70 per cent .
8 Mitchum , Ford and Lila were given bail at a thousand dollars each and a hearing was scheduled for the following week .
9 Such demands were given urgency by the publication in 1915 of Maternity : letters from working women which described experiences of motherhood in harrowing terms ; they were also to set the agenda for the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act and interwar policy .
10 If kindness is giving territory to the uniqueness of other people , then it also reflects an assured sense of one 's own identity .
11 Thus in [ 12 ] the hearer is given access to the entry for SPRINT .
12 This dilemma is given prominence in the distinction that Nizan draws between " balance-sheet novels " ( " romans-bilan " ) , which take stock of a finalised historical period , and " problem-centred novels " ( " romans-probleme " ) which focus on contemporary issues .
13 But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent .
14 The legislative intention was to give rise to a charge whenever there was a change in the proportion of the settled property in which any participator was deemed to be entitled , whether the change had arisen on death , or on termination of the interest , or on a disposition or deemed disposition .
15 In November , Edward was given sight of a letter from Haushofer — he signed it ‘ A ’ — written to the duke .
16 But scientists began to realize that the industry was giving birth to a serious pollution hazard .
17 The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution .
18 Until mid-December , Barbier-Beltz continues to show work by Patrick Dubrac — constructions whose heterogeneous elements are given unity by a lick of white paint — and by Jean-Loup Trassard , whose photographs record the immutable aspects of nature .
19 For each of us ( it is said ) our lives are given sense by certain projects , whether it be that of being a certain sort of person , or of achieving something in such fields as the political , or cultural , or in our personal relations .
20 Erm could I suggest that er that the incoming committee be given authority to erm obtain erm audited accounts and to approve those accounts on on your behalf when available ?
21 He said that some time ago the POWs fund was merged with a general purposes benefit fund for all old comrades of the regiment , but that POWs were given priority in any benefit payouts .
22 Best and Barker 1977 ) in which rats were given access to 5 ml of a distinctively flavoured solution at various intervals before a conditioning trial on which consumption of this solution was followed by an injection of LiCl .
23 She appealed against the defendants being given bail for fear they would interfere with witnesses who could help police inquiries .
24 At last year 's Annual General Meeting ( ‘ AGM ’ ) , the directors were given authority under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 , until 15th July 1997 to allot shares up to a maximum of the authorised but unissued share capital of the company .
25 In addition , at last years AGM , the directors were given authority under Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 , until the conclusion of the 1993 AGM , to allot equity securities for cash , other than to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings , up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,234,276 being equal to 5% of the then issued ordinary share capital .
26 Most of non-statutory work is giving advice to people like control , and others , which may not be purely statutory in the sense that is , but the major difference is there 's a time when it 's imposed on when we have to do it .
27 This passage is given pride of place at the start of the title on trusts in UE , but it is not a very laudable analysis of the notion of a trust .
28 The role of premises is to throw light on a subject ; the role of evidences is to give weight to it .
29 The principal objective of the system of supervision with the Appointed Actuary is to give emphasis to the importance of providing fair value for consumers of life assurance products and ensuring their security , rather than to provide protection for the insurance company .
30 The older tendency to classify muscles according to their probable functions is giving way to a system of naming them from their positions , origins and insertions .
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