Example sentences of "[noun sg] was give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The television experiment was given greater significance , however , by the recent radical changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ; at the time when TV Martí began transmitting the Castro regime appeared more beleaguered and vulnerable to outside subversion than at any time since the early 1960s . |
| 2 | He saw the possibilities , contacted the manufacturers with the help of the BBC , and as a result was given two sets of the equipment . |
| 3 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 4 | The putsch set back the beginning of negotiations between the French government and the GPRA for a short while , but its ultimate effect was to give new momentum to the talks . |
| 5 | Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister 's decision to take legal action was given strong support by other Socialists , but criticized by some leading politicians of the centre-right , who argued that it might constitute a restriction of freedom of speech . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Under Thatcher , to say yes to private health and wealth was to give public approval for values most people felt to be indecent . |
| 9 | COMECON : The nine-member Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) was formally dissolved following its 46th session in Budapest on June 28 ; a liquidation committee was given 90 days to oversee the organization 's dissolution . |
| 10 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 11 | In June 1989 , a group of children from a Delhi slum were tortured for theft ; a 13-year-old girl was stripped and beaten ; a 12-year-old boy was given electric shocks and beaten . |
| 12 | The exercise was given added spice when pupils carried out their tests ( to see which machine could hurl a missile the furthest ) on a site visit to a real medieval castle where such machines would have been used . |
| 13 | Later , the Presidential Council ( which was politically ineffective ) was replaced by a Security Council ( responsible for internal law and order and external security ) , while the Federation Council was given enhanced powers to meet the demands of the republics . |
| 14 | Deng 's campaign was given prominent support by a large number of provincial governors attending the session , many of whom promised to press ahead with economic reforms regardless of central policies . |
| 15 | In addition government control of the media ensured that the opposition 's campaign was given little coverage . |
| 16 | The tax system was reformed and the peasantry was given greater protection against the arbitrary actions of some of the local Moslem spahis . |
| 17 | The Agency also confirmed that technicians had initially delayed taking action , in the belief that a gauge showing an abnormal increase in radioactivity was giving false readings . |
| 18 | To form a New Testament canon was to give special importance to the written tradition , imparting a fixity which protected it against adulteration . |
| 19 | Its principal avowed aim was to give legislative form to the decision , contrary to the recommendation of the Law Commission , 46 and thereby allow the parties in these ‘ tragic cases ’ the dignity of a decree of nullity so that , if thought fit , provision for ancillary relief could be made by the court , and the unsavoury examination of their sexuality , rendered necessary if the only recourse were a declaration of status , could be avoided . |
| 20 | Under this heading the commitment to reduce disparities between the standards of living in the various countries and regions of the Community was given greater emphasis . |
| 21 | In recognition of the importance of these issues Group board director was given overall responsibility for quality , health , safety and environmental matters . |
| 22 | Due to the admitted negligence of a doctor , the plaintiff was given excessive oxygen . |
| 23 | Chemistry was given new status as the art of separating the pure from the impure . |
| 24 | The investigation was given fresh life with the conviction in January 1991 of 10 soyabean brokers and traders [ see p. 37954 ] . |
| 25 | Kepler 's theology was Protestant ; but it was also idiosyncratic , in that the doctrine of the Trinity was given physical meaning in the structure of the cosmos . |
| 26 | Burnside was given 12 months in a young offender 's institution and Sture jailed for a year . |
| 27 | When the first CAMRA annual meeting was held in 1972 the event was given wide media coverage and thousands flocked to join the new organisation . |
| 28 | Octreotide was given five minutes before ERCP as an intravenous bolus injectio of 100 µg and immediately after ERCP as a subcutaneous injection of 100 µg . |
| 29 | I had n't long been back from my honeymoon when my new wife was given another fright . |
| 30 | There was an immediate inquiry at which evidence was given that Hunt had been running when the race was stopped , but not really racing . |