Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goalkeeper Frazer Digby said he was given £1,000 as a loyalty payment , and a £50-a-game clean-sheet award when he did n't let in any goals . |
| 2 | STUDENT Chris Smith was given £1,000 from a pools company — and then told : ‘ Sorry , we 've made a mistake . ’ |
| 3 | Adrian Hadley , Salford 's £120,000 winger , has joined Widnes in a swap deal for Great Britain under-21 forward Jason Critchley and utility man Steve Wynne . |
| 4 | And indeed , Tarpy and McIntosh ( 1977 ) , using a procedure likely to be more sensitive ( involving , among other things , a weaker US and prolonged testing ) , were able to demonstrate substantial latent inhibition in rats given exposure to a variety of flavours before conditioning . |
| 5 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 6 | Their father , John Wordsworth , a law-agent in Cockermouth , sent Dorothy to be brought up in Halifax by a relative , and before long had enrolled William in a boarding-school at Hawkshead . |
| 7 | It was to have formed part of a site with Yorkshire-based Morrisons supermarket storage centre and general industrial area . |
| 8 | SINEAD O'CONNOR has received support from a group which tore up photos of the Pope outside New York 's St Patrick 's Cathedral . |
| 9 | When he had left the University of California , Santa Barbara , he had taught literature at a school in Battle Creek , Michigan . |
| 10 | Have you ever received money from a drug company ? |
| 11 | What do you mean yes of course I have , you have received money from a drug company . |
| 12 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 13 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 14 | Since the report was printed the committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken at the end of this afternoon 's session for our colleagues involved in the dispute . |
| 15 | The committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken at the end of congress on Monday to help these colleagues as well . |
| 16 | The committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken on behalf of the Matthew trust fund at the end of the Wednesday morning session . |
| 17 | Sedgefield District Council , we hear , has given permission for a clairvoyancy evening at Spennymoor leisure centre . |
| 18 | In 1773 a London eccentric , James Cox , a goldsmith with premises off Fleet Street , was given permission by an Act of Parliament to disperse a collection of curiosities which formed a small museum he ran . |
| 19 | She had a divinity degree from London University and had completed part of a law course at Lagos University when she was admitted to the faculty in 1983 as an entrant preparing to sit her bar exams . |
| 20 | Mr Gibson who has already received permission for a tea shop can now submit separate applications for the visitors ' centre and the conversion of a former smithy into a holiday cottage the two elements supported by councillors . |
| 21 | On dry summer days the dust raised by galloping posses could be evoked by a vigorous soft shoe shuffle in the red Derbyshire clay , your sandals given spurs by a twig slid in by the outer ankle . |
| 22 | Until mid-December , Barbier-Beltz continues to show work by Patrick Dubrac — constructions whose heterogeneous elements are given unity by a lick of white paint — and by Jean-Loup Trassard , whose photographs record the immutable aspects of nature . |
| 23 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 24 | Right : Simple , straight path is given direction with a 45° herringbone pattern in paviors |
| 25 | The key point remains , however : research is seldom driven by curricular considerations , but is normally given direction by an interest structure based on academic careers and the public use of knowledge . |
| 26 | These financial and moral concerns have given rise to a change in policy , which has led to the Child Support Act due to be implemented fully by April 1993 . |
| 27 | The closing of the launderette had given rise to a case in the County Court , in which Edward and she had been held not to blame , but had been conscious of the contempt of their solicitor , who always seemed to be in a great hurry . |
| 28 | Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour . |
| 29 | Then , reluctantly , she made her way home , a home in which , in some extraordinary way , the advent of one small baby appeared to have given rise to a revolution . |
| 30 | A desire for more effective drugs with fewer side effects , combined with an increasing knowledge of the molecular basis of treatment , has given rise to a clutch of new companies developing ‘ handed ’ molecules . |