Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be give [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time local Labour parties were given some sense of common identity , which had been lacking on the political wing since the disaffiliation of the ILP . |
| 2 | Different opinions are given all the time . |
| 3 | But , unlike its predecessor , both these and the earlier historical items are given little social or economic context . |
| 4 | Findings of successful residential care were given little attention . |
| 5 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 6 | The tendency amongst many contemporary psychologists is to give less significance than Freud to the purely psychosexual aspects of property . |
| 7 | Had the man who wrote the foreword been at No. 10 in those days he would doubtless have seen to it that this cricketer who displayed such honourable patriotism and high personal standards was given some decoration or other . |
| 8 | But as the policy of giving a great deal of attention to politicians had become established , complaints were inevitable : certain individual politicians were given more publicity than others , which led to jealousy . |
| 9 | Secured creditors are given some protection : no proposal or modification that affects their rights to enforce security can be approved unless they concur . |
| 10 | Over the next two decades it was rebuilt to include many fine Georgian houses and in 1725 the then humble parsonage was given this handsome new front by an unknown architect . |
| 11 | Black pupils are given more attention by teachers only in terms of discipline and punishment . |
| 12 | Because the novel is written mainly in dialogue , a spurious impression was given that it would be easy to adapt . |
| 13 | Mountbatten saw Charles for what he was and liked what he saw , and for the first time the growing Prince was given some real sense of his own worth . |
| 14 | For this reason , some basic ophthalmic information is given that will , it is hoped , clarify the cause of some of the problems that visually handicapped pupils can face . |
| 15 | This is a marvellous example of how the new sociological dimension was giving some films a new prestige and a new relevance and thereby gaining Hollywood new friends . |
| 16 | Is a specialist required or should general potential be given more weight ? |
| 17 | The important thing is to make sure that those people that have got those particular skills are given those roles to be able to perform that role perform use those skills . |
| 18 | What I did not realise before was that whilst new accounts are given much publicity and the rates of interest are proudly displayed , the accounts of existing investors no longer available to fresh punters are discreetly removed from such lists . |
| 19 | There were a lot of complicated lifts , and Hayden found some moments of the opening duet highly erotic ; the witches and other apparitions were given some ghoulishly eccentric movements . |
| 20 | I had n't long been back from my honeymoon when my new wife was given another fright . |
| 21 | The modern janitor is given that title for having the keys to all doors in a building . |
| 22 | The financial system was given more freedom than before , but that made it an even more ruthless broadcaster of economic frailties . |
| 23 | Judicial officials were given more guidance as to punishment than had been available previously , but a great deal of discretion remained . |
| 24 | The emergence of a set of strategies which encompass the whole institution can be developed at the same time as local links and local issues are given some priority . |
| 25 | However , these theories were basically incompatible because the Newtonian theory was invariant if the whole system was given any uniform velocity , whereas the Maxwell theory defined a preferred velocity — the speed of light . |