Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million . |
| 2 | After he had signed his card , the winner was given a peaked cotton cap bearing the embroidered inscription : ‘ Daniel Silva , Jersey Open champion 1992 ’ . |
| 3 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 4 | As of now , IBM Corp is offering an anti-virus service to its UK customers : this comprises updates to anti-virus programs four times a year — these provide users with ‘ install-and-forget ’ automatic protection on MS-DOS , OS/2 and Microsoft Corp 's Windows operating systems , and can detect viruses in the memory , on floppy and hard disks ; if viruses are found in the memory , they are disabled , but if found on disks the user is given a recommended course of action on-line ; other services consist of detection tools for any new viruses ; access to an anti-virus bulletin board , from which the latest products and documentation can be downloaded ; phone support desk ; and customer alert service to forewarn of known or threatened virus outbreaks ; prices will be amended on an annual basis , but for one to 250 machines , the service is £1,000 , on 3,001 to 5,000 workstations it is £12,000 . |
| 5 | It has the advantage that the user is given a feeling of security by being concerned only with a limited range of immediate decisions . |
| 6 | Palace Pageant 's trainer Ian Balding is hoping the colt is given a chance in next week 's Brittania Handicap at Royal Ascot . |
| 7 | On Dec. 21 , 1989 , exactly a year after the Lockerbie bombing [ see pp. 26409-10 ] , a Palestinian identified as a suspect in the crime was given a life sentence by a court in Uppsala , Sweden , having been with three others with terrorist offences in Sweden , Denmark and the Netherlands in 1985-86 [ see p. 37137 ] . |
| 8 | A longer term goal of the research is to give a general mathematical formulation of how people allocate their thinking resources and to explore the implications for economic behaviour . |
| 9 | There are weekly visits , once a month the inmate is given a weekend leave , and once every six months is allowed home for a week . |
| 10 | For this look , the wig was given a weave and spiral cut to break up the basic exterior shape . |
| 11 | ‘ The club were given a deadline of November 29 1991 for confirmation of the terms agreed with their agents , but the agents have recently confirmed that the club no longer wish to purchase the property . ’ |
| 12 | All patients new to the practice are given a temporary folder , which is stamped with the date that the permanent notes were requested from the family health services authority . |
| 13 | Each term in the search is given a " weight " which is determined by its relative frequency in the file being searched . |
| 14 | The Princess was given a serious fright . |
| 15 | When this was dry , the engine was given a base coat of Boltgun Metal and highlighted with Chainmail and Mithril Silver . |
| 16 | At the Dhoon Quarry , where the engine was given a drink from a convenient fire hydrant , the turnround was made using a crossover and helped by a gravity shunt . |
| 17 | The foal is given a health check and normally given a routine antibiotic and tetanus antiserum as well as an enema to aid the passing of meconium . |
| 18 | The range was given a tremendous boost by winning the premier award of the carpet industry — ‘ The Style Setter Award . ’ |
| 19 | The girl was given a medical . |
| 20 | Sixties acid rock 's quest for the mindblowing was given a ruinous , apocalyptic , eighties inflection : psychedelia 's pristine bliss-out was polluted by hardcore punk nihilism . |
| 21 | The Committee was given a figure for new safety expenditure arising from the Cullen report of £850 million , perhaps rising even to £5,000 million over the next 10 to 15 years . |
| 22 | An important stated purpose of the Act was to give a legal framework for credit which was compatible with present-day commercial realities , and flexible enough to suit rather than restrict future developments in the credit industry — instead of the old framework , inflexibly moulded to outdated patterns of credit use . |
| 23 | Sometimes some of the sheep and goats are hidden , and when the flock comes to rest at midday the boy is given a few minutes in which to inspect gothorima and report . |
| 24 | His sister died , and to avert evil influences the boy was given a new name : Sukarno , or Karno . |
| 25 | When it comes to the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances that the constitution asserted , it is also clear that the bureaucracy was given a much more equal share than either the Diet or the Judiciary . |
| 26 | If the child succeeds here , then the word ( for example , ‘ sun ’ ) is modelled in a sentence and the child is given a number of opportunities to produce a correct imitation . |
| 27 | Each time the desired behaviour occurs the child is given a praise reward : ‘ good boy/girl ’ , ‘ that 's lovely sitting down ’ . |
| 28 | Each evening , the child was given a piece of chalk and shown how to cross the days off which he did with great satisfaction . |
| 29 | The child was given a check-up at Wexham Park Hospital and later released . |
| 30 | In the temporal task , the child was given a sentence of the form B because A ( e.g. , The cup falls because Coco pushes it ) , and shown two static picture-strips with a picture of event A either to the right or to the left of a picture of event B ( the order BA , or the order AB ) . |