Example sentences of "have given a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really .
2 Massine has given a translation into choreographic terms of a hundred musical features of the Symphony .
3 ‘ It was described by Lord Provost Black in 1845 as a school which has conferred a lustre upon our city and which has given a tone to the manners and intellect of all its inhabitants .
4 It has given a pledge that compulsory redundancies will not be introduced up to August 31 in the hope that enough volunteers come forward .
5 I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off .
6 One of the major trusts in Grampian is seeking £1.5m to develop contract setting and monitoring and has given a contract to a firm of management consultants to handle contracting issues with fundholders .
7 It was answered , here was a local visitor , who has given a sentence ; and be it right , or be it wrong , the party is concluded by it ; and you must submit to such laws as the founder is pleased to put upon you .
8 The agency has given a total of £1.5m towards emergency relief programmes in southern Sudan in the past six years .
9 The only exceptions are cases in which the court : ( a ) is considering whether to make a residence order in respect of a child in care ( s41(6) ( e ) ) ; or ( b ) has given a direction for investigation under s37 and has made or is considering whether to make an interim care order ( s41(6) ( b ) ) .
10 Julian 's answer is that when Titius sues for the legacy he can be opposed with an exceptio doli unless he has given a guarantee that he will manumit Stichus .
11 The company has given a guarantee of up to £693,000 ( 1990 nil ) in respect of a bank advance to a prospective overseas agent .
12 Morgan Grampian has given a court undertaking not to publish the information .
13 The UK2000 Campaign has given a merit award to the West Cumbria Groundwork Trust for their work on footpaths in the area .
14 Section 340 makes corresponding provision for an application to the court , and for the court making an order , where an individual has given a preference ‘ to any person . ’
15 For example , a company which has given a preference to a person connected with the company is rebuttably presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer that person .
16 It captures the fundamental agreement that has given a unity to the perspectives of leading constitutional authorities , but it does not reveal the disputes that have existed within liberal-democratic constitutional theory .
17 A recent finding in the New South Wales Supreme Court has given a fillip to accountancy practices across Australia .
18 No wonder , then , that manager Jarlath Cloonan has given a vote of confidence to his ‘ semi ’ line-up .
19 Not surprisingly Galway boss Jarlath Cloonan has given a vote of confidence to the side that shocked Tipperary at the semi-final stage .
20 All applications are to be made , in the first instance , to the registrar , unless the judge has given a general or special direction to the contrary or the order sought is not within the registrar 's power to make ( r 7.6(2) ) .
21 It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … .
22 Bradford , in particular , has given a lead on this and there is ample evidence to show how the department 's profile was raised considerably and more positively .
23 British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex .
24 In the south of England one survey has given a figure of 6% for all types of dog .
25 It has given a lift to the people of Donegal what with all the problems of immigration , unemployment and high interest rates .
26 ERNEST Saunders , jailed for his part in the Guinness affair , has given a lecture to business students in which he spoke about ethics in management .
27 Accommodating the exiled Kuwaitis has given a boost to the depressed property market , especially in the Eastern Province , where rents have tripled in the past year .
28 She has given a lot of commitment to the strategy ; she now needs to give as much to the process of change and to ensuring that the public understands it .
29 I could say that the hon. Gentleman should ask one of his former hon. Friends because he has given a definition .
30 That 's the , that 's the crux of the story , she 's she 's campaigning against bad language and she sent , has given a letter to all the in the school with fuck you in it .
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