Example sentences of "[be] given [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , stage dates have already been estimated for the Cretaceous , with the startling conclusion that of the 67 million years attributed to the twelve stages of the system , nearly 20 million are given to a single stage-the Cenomanian . |
| 2 | The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion . |
| 3 | The performances are given on a floating stage in the lake , and the audience is accommodated in an open-air auditorium on the shore . |
| 4 | For the individual capital the external relations are given in a narrow manner , that is , its main problem is seen as that of the transformation of its commodity-value-product into the money-form of value . |
| 5 | Full details of all aspects of your pension , including additional voluntary contributions , are given in a separate booklet which will be supplied by the Personnel Manager . |
| 6 | Details of the polymerase chain reaction are given in a previous publication . |
| 7 | A second property is that the local distances are given by a metric equation in the Gaussian coordinate separations . |
| 8 | By 1900 , however , a Far Eastern department had been created and most of the business relating to African questions had been given to a new African department : in other words the administrative subdivisions were adapted to the changing political importance of different parts of the world . |
| 9 | Alone of twentieth-century prime Ministers her name has been given to a political ‘ doctrine ’ and undoubted political style . |
| 10 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 11 | Mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the U K is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of U N er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant . |
| 12 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 13 | Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood . |
| 14 | Mr Heseltine , who has achieved his ambition of heading an enlarged Department of Trade and Industry , has been given as a junior minister Mr Neil Hamilton ( Tatton ) , a Right-winger who is regarded as a keeper of the Thatcherite flame . |
| 15 | Further details of the method have been given in a recent paper . |
| 16 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 17 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
| 18 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
| 19 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 20 | Immediate notice must be given of a likely claim against Overdrive . |
| 21 | There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ How can he be a Copt and bring money to be given to a Moslem for the Moslem to use against the Copts ? ’ |
| 23 | In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay . |
| 24 | It is the name that can be given to a historical construct . |
| 25 | As always , proceeds will be given to a local charity . |
| 26 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 27 | Authority may be given for a particular exercise of the power or for its exercise generally ( a distinction of some importance in relation to pre-emptive rights ) and may be unconditional or subject to conditions . |
| 28 | Chosen Heritage Ltd. has a scheme whereby a firm instruction can be given for a guaranteed price funeral which can be paid for at today 's prices . |
| 29 | What was previously assumed to be given for a single capital now needs to be explained . |
| 30 | Obviously the leaders of major organisations can not spend much of their time in schools , but their occasional visits would complement the very valuable support which can be given on a regular and consistent basis by businesses and people who work within them . |