Example sentences of "have given the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election result has given the Conservatives five years in which to press ahead with the changes . |
| 2 | Michael Rayer has given the selectors so little excuse to drop him , has been so sound in all aspects of play , that he has consigned possibly the most dangerous prong of the Welsh attack to the replacements ' bench . |
| 3 | She said at the time ‘ no-one has given the BBC a mandate to promote their causes . |
| 4 | Three months into his posting , he has given the BBC a sense of direction — but not everybody likes the way it is going . |
| 5 | The euthanasia law was a broadly backed compromise worked out after 20 years of exhaustive public debate and has given the Netherlands the world 's most lenient policy on mercy killing . |
| 6 | It has given the life industry three years to develop a satisfactory method of remuneration disclosure . |
| 7 | The Tokai Bank Ltd of Japan , one of the world 's largest financial institutions , has given the University £500,000 to establish the Tokai Bank Chair in International Finance . |
| 8 | Liudprand of Cremona , who hated it , has given the papacy of the mid tenth century a bad name as the centre of local faction and corruption . |
| 9 | Just across on the Spanish side of the col is the opening of the fearsome gouffre in the limestone that has given the name Pierre-Saint-Martin a certain resonance . |
| 10 | A relative newcomer among theories sets out to generalize the description of discontinuities of this type to which its originator , Professor Rene Thom of the Sorbonne , has given the name ‘ catastrophe theory ’ ( Zeeman , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | consider restricting sole practitioners from handling client money in excess of 10,000 unless supervised by another firm or bank , or where the sole principal has given the Law Society a bond or deposit of around 200,000 against default ; |
| 12 | Adrian Colston , director of the Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust , says the centre has given the Trust a shop window in the town centre : ‘ It 's early days yet , but the centre has already doubled our volunteer workforce and we think it will become a major focal point . ’ |
| 13 | National Federation of Anglers president Dave Bird has given the idea the thumbs-down . |
| 14 | A Friends of the Earth spokesman said : " Mr Justice Hutchison has given the government extremely wide powers to take our best open spaces and give any land they like in exchange . |
| 15 | This has given the East Germans the best standard of living in East Europe . |
| 16 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |
| 17 | He has given the players a week off training to avoid incurring any injuries . |
| 18 | The Barbier-Beltz gallery is showing works on paper by the painter Erik Dietman : nordic fables , to which the energetic Swede has given the title ‘ Papa pied / Papy Erik ’ . |
| 19 | Thus instead of writing If the Seller shall have given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , and the Buyer shall fail to collect them within seven days from service of such notice , the Seller shall be entitled to make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage the drafter could write If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days , the Seller may make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 20 | This structure is followed in the example given above and can be broken down as follows : If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection [ case ] , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days [ condition ] , the Seller [ subject ] may make arrangements for the storage of the goods [ action ] and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 21 | He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition , and will speak at their conference . |
| 22 | But now the 95 workers are out of a job … the Ministry of Defence has given the contract to supply uniforms to workers in Morocco instead . |
| 23 | But now a high court judge has given the couple permission to take their case to court . |
| 24 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 25 | The director of public prosecutions has given the driver in the Purley train crash limited immunity from charges . |
| 26 | It is this destruction that has given the wealth of shattered archaic sculpture from the city . |
| 27 | Evolution rather than revolution is also imposed by the British system of government , which has given the country twenty-one Ministers of Defence since the Second World War . |
| 28 | I welcome the changes that have been made since then and the leadership which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has given the country . |
| 29 | So it looks as though the Government has given the council a cautious go-ahead to draw up a scheme if not to beat the Tay , then to lessen the disastrous effects another flood would have on the long suffering Perthshire population . |
| 30 | Scottish Enterprise , the successor to the Scottish Development Agency which was the driving force behind the plan to bring in leisure and commerce to the Waterfront , has given the council seven days to pay for extensive infrastructure works or face court proceedings . |