Example sentences of "[adj] give the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Associated British Ports , which owns Southampton , Hull and Cardiff , believes that a Channel Tunnel strategy is unnecessary given the overall prospects for growth of trade within and beyond Europe . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as we are concerned it would not be proper to give the actual amounts , but these negotiations are useful for maintaining contact with the landowner . ’ |
| 3 | Even though his first impressions have not been positive he is prepared to give the new laws a run for their money . |
| 4 | Prices and values can not be higher than what people can pay — which means , how much people can borrow — and lenders , belatedly learning prudence , are no longer willing to give the high multiples of gross income they did in the 1980s or the high proportion of price . |
| 5 | Rule 17 of the Solicitors ' Overseas Practice Rules requires that solicitors be covered by insurance or other indemnity as appropriate given the local conditions , and various other factors . |
| 6 | These are not only very expensive to run by they are also dangerous given the huge amounts of paper lying around the place . |
| 7 | The following gives the revised conditions of award for the new SVQs in Administration . |
| 8 | In the election campaign , the Conservatives had made much of ‘ setting the people free ’ of the planners , and of making the nationalised industries more ‘ businesslike ’ and ‘ commercial ’ , but the reality of controls remained for some years , as indeed was inevitable given the physical limits of a national cake whose size was fixed in the short term . |
| 9 | If anything , the psychological condition of the black sportsman should be tension-packed given the social circumstances surrounding his involvement . |
| 10 | Phases 2 and 3 seem overly ambitious given the present circumstances . |
| 11 | Using an amp with a good speaker simulator is likely to give the best results , while there are various effects units with built-in speaker simulators . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 13 | The increased investigative powers contained in the latter piece of legislation is likely to give the regulatory authorities a greater degree of success in detecting insider abuse , however , the subjective elements of the substantive offence , as enshrined in the CSA 1985 , remain an onerous burden for the prosecution to discharge . |
| 14 | The government has nevertheless seen fit to give the new rules an official stamp by publishing them in its Journal Officiel , through which all new laws and decrees are promulgated . |
| 15 | It is reasonable to give the appropriate Ministers at the Department of Trade and Industry a little more time to respond to it . |
| 16 | It is no good giving the United Nations a role and wanting it to carry out these measures on our behalf but not giving it the means to do so . |
| 17 | Thereafter , they believe that the growth of Labour was practically inexorable given the political circumstances of the times — aided by the increase in the electorate from seven to twenty-one million , following the introduction of the 1918 Franchise Act . |
| 18 | After 1999 , Aegon will be able to inject any amount of new capital and should this be approved by the voting trust — which must be likely should it wish to generate more profits through business growth for the with-profits policyholders — then the with-profits fund must match Aegon 's injections ( which must be considered unlikely given the huge resources Aegon has access to ) or see its stake in the company diluted . |
| 19 | The acquisition of Palestine would greatly increase his economic and political power , which was marginal given the poor resources of Transjordan . |
| 20 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 21 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 22 | It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development . |
| 23 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |