Example sentences of "and give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCHOOL governors should be treated like magistrates and given paid leave of absence from work , the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association has told the National Commission on Education . |
| 2 | The broad legal mandate of the agencies about water pollution control is transformed into policy by senior officials and given practical expression in the setting of pollution standards . |
| 3 | The action revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved ( all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases ) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop . |
| 4 | The President said his government had the right to acquire any sophisticated weapon from the Soviet Union , ‘ if Pakistani intervention in Afghanistan expands ’ , but he wanted a political settlement in which Afghanistan would be demilitarised and given international guarantees of permanent neutrality . |
| 5 | The life cycle is direct and given optimal conditions the eggs may hatch and develop to L3 in as little as five days . |
| 6 | On Feb. 26 Israeli Justice Minister Dan Meridor said that the US policy over the guarantees had " interfered with the peace process and given Arab negotiators an unfair advantage " . |
| 7 | Wood , cork and well-laid vinyl tiles can be painted with gloss paint and given extra protection with a few coats of polyurethane or yacht varnish . |
| 8 | The contract itself recognises usages as well as rules and it seems more likely to me that the rules may , in some cases at any rate , have developed out of and given partial expression to usages rather than that they should indicate the absence of usages beyond what is contained in the rule . " |
| 9 | Franco Boretti , a proud pet-owner from Sicily , was taken to court and given two fines amounting to the equivalent of 67p each after his dog had been found guilty of committing ‘ an obscene act in a public place ’ . |
| 10 | At the end of my first term , I was relieved of the science , for obvious reasons , and given two classes of art instead . |
| 11 | They say that the water may have to be treated with chlorine , blasted with ultra-violet light , pasteurised and given other treatments before it can be re-used . |
| 12 | Of course , some small firms do offer growth potential , but these have to be identified and given appropriate support rather than a general subsidy linked to premises or land . |
| 13 | Such people should be diagnosed by experts and given appropriate treatment which will prevent them from re-offending ; if necessary they can be detained to incapacitate them in the meantime . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom and France in particular argued that refugees should be accommodated and given appropriate assistance as near as possible to their place of origin . |
| 15 | Otherwise the only internal development that could relieve the pressure of men on land was a fishing industry , developed by Catalans in the late eighteenth century and given wide markets by the railways and much later , the invention of the sardine tin . |
| 16 | ‘ The importance of maintenance as a specialist element within the sphere of building is undeniable and yet so often we are portrayed as unprofessional and given little credence . |
| 17 | Under the Communist regime , orphans were treated as mentally handicapped and given little help . |
| 18 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |
| 19 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 20 | He was fined 300-pounds and given six penalty points for careless driving . |
| 21 | The Medellín cartel had pressed for the confession stipulation to be dropped ; it wished to be considered as a group and given political status [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 22 | The cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria remained at large , however , and several journalists were taken hostage , some of whom were murdered , to reinforce the traffickers demands that they be treated as a group and given political status like former guerrillas , who were given an absolute pardon on surrendering [ see pp. 37851 ; 37914 ; 37957-58 ] . |
| 23 | This was his third notable discovery , and , like its predecessors , he did not pursue his observations , which were extended and given wider prominence by Felix Hubert d'Herelle ( 1873–1949 ) . |
| 24 | For exposures from an HBsAg positive source to previously vaccinated employees , the exposed employee should be tested for antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen and given one dose of vaccine and one dose of HBIG if the antibody level in the employee 's blood sample is inadequate ( i.e. <10 SRU by RIA , negative by EIA ) . |
| 25 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 26 | He was hauled back to New York and given that column to keep him out of any more mischief . ’ |
| 27 | And given that devices change as new models are introduced , there will then be a daunting support job to be done just to keep up with the market . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman produced a more entertaining account than life itself — and given that life has been fairly entertaining over the past year , that is quite an achievement . |
| 29 | B is the more radical principle , and in the absence of any special reason to prefer A , and given that writers supporting neutrality say little that bears on the issue , I will assume that the doctrine of neutrality advocates neutrality as in B. |
| 30 | And given that humans have been predators of prairie dogs for at least 150 years , the researchers argue that they are perfectly legitimate to use in such a test . |