Example sentences of "the [noun] be give [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Netherlands , many quoted companies have widespread share ownership but the shareholders are given little power and technical barriers to takeovers are very important . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the Vatican is to give all its wealth to the poor . |
| 3 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 4 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 5 | If we decide that this traditional strophic form does not suit our needs , we have the more difficult alternative of a looser form , in which the words are given more importance , while the music , intensifying their meaning and emotion , may fall into a supporting role . |
| 6 | For a syntactic analyser it is necessary that the words be given some identifier to show the grammatical category of the word . |
| 7 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 8 | The Slovenes were given some support from Croatia , but the majority of the republics and provinces were unwilling to return to the old system . |
| 9 | As an aid in their redesign , the executives were given some handouts that described a different set of behaviours . |
| 10 | ‘ The government is giving this project every conceivable support because of the enormous amount of work it would provide not just for Cleveland but for many other British companies . |
| 11 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 12 | The assurance is given that such extra-contractual referrals will go unchallenged by the DHA ‘ unless it can be shown that the proposed referral is wholly unjustified on clinical grounds , or where an alternative referral would be equally efficacious for the patient , taking into account the patient 's wishes ’ . |
| 13 | Women could not normally inherit in other ancient Near Eastern countries , but in Israel the ruling is given that brotherless daughters may inherit . |
| 14 | If the centre was given some notice of the team 's arrival , and if the team were lead by a SCOTVEC officer , then not only would the profile of subject assessment be raised but the centre could use the presence of so many SCOTVEC staff in a positive way for staff development purposes . |
| 15 | To the charge that the enormous number of local agreements can be cited as evidence of national agreements acting as little more than guidelines , the answer is given that local agreements acted as a form of pace-setting for subsequent national agreements , and that this transfer mechanism can be incorporated into wage-determination models [ Prest and Coppock , 1978 ] . |
| 16 | Well the thing is give some mum . |
| 17 | The Bank is to give all the necessary details in relation to PIC Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Townsend says the aim of the book is to give enough information for people planning a trip and ‘ to try and capture at least some of the joy and excitement of walking in these mountains ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The auditorium will seat around 800 and the idea is to give more people a chance to enjoy the spectacle of the Dudley Stationary Open Veterans ’ Week , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The way forward , if it 's the desire of the community to find more low cost houses for people to live in , in villages , I think the way is to give some incentive to farmers and landowners to give er or to make land available . |
| 21 | The reason for the exception is to give all shareholders an opportunity to participate in large share purchase operations . |
| 22 | This is the Citizen 's Charter in action and we have no objection to the public being given more information . |
| 23 | The addition to the present procedure of a requirement that the prisoner be given this information , and thereafter be entitled to make written representations before his tariff is set , would in my opinion satisfy Lord Reid 's test in Wiseman v. Borneman [ 1971 ] A.C. 297 , 308 . |
| 24 | The chief was given all his storebought utensils and forced to walk away from the village forever . |
| 25 | One social services source told Sunday Life : ‘ The RUC was given all the names of boys who were placed in the home between 1981 and 1983 and they are trying to track them all down . |
| 26 | Again this system is aimed at limiting disasters if the tank is given less attention than some others . |
| 27 | The palliative of the PACA was given more importance as a piece of social engineering than its reception by the street kids warranted . |
| 28 | It is important to begin with this sense of perspective , lest the impression be given that politics exists only for the benefit of those who practise it — a kind of hobby ( or , better still , paid profession ) for an educated élite who compete among themselves for the ‘ prize ’ of being on the winning side that forms the next government . |
| 29 | In much existentialist writing the impression is given that , in order to test the believer and evoke real trust , God makes a world in which all the evidence points against Him . |
| 30 | The impression is given that , rather than being positively valued for its autonomy , housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative — employment work . |