Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The self regulatory requirements on management under the Health and Safety at Work Act should ensure that discipline is enforced and that all affected personnel are given an opportunity to maintain and improve their working environment .
2 Under its unique regime , prisoners are given the chance through therapy to come to terms with their crimes , and hopefully start a new life .
3 The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) .
4 7.1 Where gaps in provision are identified the council permits centres to submit Locally Devised Modules .
5 If time and budget are limited the release may have to do everything and indeed it can be usefully sent to all the media which might be interested in the story .
6 With daily marking to the market , the capital gains and losses on an index futures contract are realized every day and the owner has no discretion over their timing , that is , shifting capital gains and losses between tax years .
7 Accepting shareholders are given the option to elect for more of one type to the extent that other accepting shareholders elect for more of the other type .
8 The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal .
9 ( c ) All children and young persons Local authorities are given a power but not a duty to provide accommodation to a wider group of children and young persons on welfare grounds .
10 Additionally there is a general entitlement to a ‘ Disturbance Payment ’ for persons who are not entitled to compensation , and local authorities are given a duty ‘ to secure the provision of suitable alternative accommodation where this is not otherwise available on reasonable terms , for any person displaced from residential accommodation ’ by acquisition .
11 Gaining access to the castle , the knights are given a tour .
12 Sixty million photocopies are made every year in the European Community institutions ’ .
13 The same result will follow if solicitors are given the right of audience in the Crown Court , as is by no means impossible .
14 Those meetings are held every quarter to discuss issues of food and consumer concern .
15 Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists .
16 The musicians are paid a pittance , eat out on the street at night and pay for floor space to sleep in a garage until they are turned out at dawn .
17 Once these sketches are completed the working space and technical file areas are saved .
18 But they are not the result of any form of democratic consultation and LPAs are given no right to see them , even though the policy advanced might directly impinge on their financial responsibilities .
19 We are confident that when the new contracts are negotiated the industry will respond to keep the lion 's share of that market throughout the 1990s and beyond .
20 Widows are given an allowance because they are deemed to have been financially dependent .
21 ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’
22 New products are introduced every quarter to give the sales force fresh impetus .
23 Because of their brevity , Japanese 36 CREATIVE WRITING students of poetry and religion are given the task of reading and writing haiku .
24 This is revealed most tellingly when informants are given a passage that appears incoherent .
25 Shareholders as the electorate are given the power to elect and dismiss their leaders , the directors .
26 These steps are called the reaction mechanism ( see chapter 9 ) .
27 The songs are allowed a life of their own and , dodgy PA permitting , it works splendidly .
28 Hundreds of accidents to children and thousands of deaths of animals are caused every year by thoughtlessly discarded waste .
29 In Japan , thousands of animals are discarded every day .
30 First the Killinchy Club are awarded a date in 1994 to run a World Championship 500 Motocross Grand Prix , and are then told by the Ulster Centre chairman that this is not on .
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