Example sentences of "is given a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a single company is allowed to operate in each part of the country but the incumbent is given a licence for only a fixed period of time . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that the purpose here is to evade the technical requirements of the Bills of Sale ( 1878 ) Amendment Act 1882 which regulates non-absolute sale transfer transactions under which a grantee is given a licence to seize . |
| 3 | And for extra glamour , each client is given a pot of Gold Leaf gel to add sparkle to special occasions ! |
| 4 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 5 | is given a balloon |
| 6 | An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive . |
| 7 | The health service is given a budget by the taxpayer which covers both the pay of staff and the services provided . |
| 8 | Whoever goes to register the death is referred to as the person ‘ responsible for the disposal of the deceased ’ and is given a range of forms including the death certificate , the form that the undertaker needs to have as authorization to proceed , and another form relating to benefits available . |
| 9 | Thus , if a person is given a drug which gets rid of any resistance he/she might have had to being taken into captivity , then , in a very strong sense , his/her autonomy has been violated . |
| 10 | Each class is given a credit rating ( normally one credit per class , but some half-classes like Quantitative Methods or Computing , which are obligatory in the Business School , may carry only a half credit ) . |
| 11 | The exporter does not expect to get paid for his goods for 12 months so he is given a credit note — a standby letter — from the importer 's bank . |
| 12 | ‘ The play is trite , ’ wrote the Sunday Express , ‘ but it is given a stature it does n't deserve by Mr Crawford 's superb , utterly beguiling , beautifully timed , thoroughly convincing performance . |
| 13 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 14 | Each node is given a pointer to its parent . |
| 15 | Second , Leys then notes that the civil bureaucracy is given a stake in the system . |
| 16 | Remember that the principle is that the audience is given a stake in what is performed ; they are an interactive part of the drama . |
| 17 | The state of destination is given a discretion ( though the convention does not specify by which organ of the state the discretion is to be exercised ) to execute a letter rogatory which does not indicate the person to be held responsible for the costs and expenses ; the point here is that there is a discretion to refuse to execute letters in such circumstances . |
| 18 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 19 | In some instances failure to comply becomes a separate offence with prescribed penalties ; in others , the court is given a discretion to treat silence as if it were a contempt of court . |
| 20 | ‘ The court is given a discretion as to the costs to award . |
| 21 | It is often unfluted and , being slenderer , is given a base . |
| 22 | PU-coated leather : a cheaper , lightweight leather which is given a polyurethane coating to make it more waterproof . |
| 23 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 24 | Each law is given a name suggestive of its use , and a number . |
| 25 | It is given a position and starts to consider play A . |
| 26 | At the first hospital visit , the woman is given a mifepristone pill . |
| 27 | The effect of applying for an IVA can be dramatic ; the individual is given a breathing space . |
| 28 | The effect of applying for an IVA can be dramatic ; the individual is given a breathing space . |
| 29 | Because housing is given a weighting of 17.5 per cent in the retail price index , an increase of this order is likely to add 0.4 and 0.5 points to the inflation rate in November , assuming there are no other pressures on prices that month . |
| 30 | Each of the 15 factors is given a weighting , so that the total weighting for the 15 factors comes to 25 . |