Example sentences of "give [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also present , and hoping to apply for membership in due course , were representatives from the Shoreham Aviation Heritage Trust , who have been given 75 acres of land at historic Shoreham Airport to develop into a museum . |
| 2 | Specific problems are resolved , while larger issues are clearly presented and students are given solid strategies on which to build long-term development . |
| 3 | The authority is given parental rights over the child by the court order and unless this is revoked these remain in force until he or she reaches 18 . |
| 4 | Insistence on instant cause and effect was particularly prevalent among sects such as Plymouth Brethren , and Edmund Gosse , in recording his early life , has given revealing examples of his father 's inflexible thinking . |
| 5 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 6 | ‘ Much of it is , but Christian has been given fifty acres of forest land . |
| 7 | With regard to the modest intestinal permeability test-intestinal morphometry relationship , it should be noted that previous attempts to correlate the intestinal permeability test results with jejunal histology have given conflicting results in patients with and without coeliac disease . |
| 8 | In education , we have seen campaigns to allow girls to take crafts in school and to be given non-stereotyped jobs on the youth-training schemes . |
| 9 | But as Belgian employees are given extensive rights after being with a company for 12 months , many employers prefer to employ a high number of temporary staff , which may include foreigners . |
| 10 | are not able to specify how the reminder treatment produces its effect but they are quite at liberty to use the unexplained phenomenon to make their central point — that the deficit in performance see in the subjects given pre-exposure stems from a failure of retrieval rather than a failure of initial acquisition . |
| 11 | In the Gulf , in addition to the Kleenex , everywhere they went , no matter what time of day , they were given little cups of very strong coffee to drink . |
| 12 | However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort . |
| 13 | Mitigation can be provided for the defendant if evidence is given that bits of string or sticky tape showed where ‘ L ’ plates had been fitted . |
| 14 | For , given that areas of relative peace and stability exist alongside those where tension is much higher , there is no reason to suppose that policing in West Belfast , for example , is any more representative of the divided society . |
| 15 | The fact that researchers in the psychology of driving have not stressed the potential effects of such arousal is particularly surprising given that feelings of risk are often considered to be one of the most important variables in the control of normal driving . |
| 16 | An aggregate approach may not be too unrealistic given that assessments of the returns on overseas bond and equity investments are likely to be dominated by exchange rate expectations . |
| 17 | Given that expectations of inflation are zero , and hence the relevant Phillips curve is what is the maximum popularity the government can achieve through manipulation of monetary or aggregate demand policy ? |
| 18 | This is perhaps the most obvious possibility , given that solutions with steady circulation become unstable with respect to growing oscillations when . |
| 19 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 20 | Making predictions about the effects of new stressors is particularly difficult given that combinations of stressors may actually counteract each other rather than being additive in their effects ( Hockey , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
| 22 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
| 23 | Other hon. Members have given specific examples of their constituents . |
| 24 | Its parent company has already given offset undertakings in the USA . |
| 25 | Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month . |
| 26 | THE Prince of Wales has given generous presents to his Highgrove staff . |
| 27 | Burnside was given 12 months in a young offender 's institution and Sture jailed for a year . |
| 28 | We were kept in on a strict curfew and given meagre amounts of pocket money each week , which was just enough to buy food and travel to the DHSS office . |
| 29 | The workers will have to be part of the success of the sell-offs , which is why advisers like Mr Brennan are proposing that they be given sizeable stakes in companies for nothing — up to 5 per cent or more — with the possibility of them buying more shares at big discounts . |
| 30 | We were given detailed programmes of work , which included visiting families and working alongside them so as to be able to understand their most pressing difficulties , We would hold discussions about national politics , to look at the lack of civil liberties and to examine how the system of exploitation divides one person from another . |