Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , out of this mish-mash has come a positive development , in which the public sector institutions are giving the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ a completely new reality . |
| 2 | Beginners are given intensive language teaching , leading rapidly to the reading of original texts , and are able , on successful completion of the course , to join former 1B students in the second-year class . |
| 3 | This arrangement gives tremendous rhythmical force and point to full chords of this kind on the wind and brass , especially when chords of three notes are given to each string group ( except of course , the double basses ) . |
| 4 | The work includes published editions of documents and calendars of primary sources , and short descriptive notes are given where necessary . |
| 5 | The self regulatory requirements on management under the Health and Safety at Work Act should ensure that discipline is enforced and that all affected personnel are given an opportunity to maintain and improve their working environment . |
| 6 | When everyone has been checked , a senior Ranger leads about a dozen riders over to the park where less experienced riders are given lessons . |
| 7 | Numerous reasons are given . |
| 8 | The young people who come into care are drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the poor and disadvantaged and though many reasons are given for the move , frequently it is the inability of the family to cope with illness , bereavement , divorce or remarriage . |
| 9 | All sorts of reasons are given for the lack of enthusiasm in schools for physical science and technology , but never that which might be the fundamental one . |
| 10 | Warm , loving and consistent discipline , in which reasons are given ( when the child can understand them ) , is thought to produce the rational sort of ‘ obedience ’ rather than the mindless and emotionally dependent following of orders . |
| 11 | These reasons are given in detail in the discussion of man-machine function allocation ( p. 35 ) . |
| 12 | However , the guide-lines normally only provide a starting-point , which the sentencer is free to depart from if this is regarded as appropriate , and provided reasons are given for doing so . |
| 13 | Three reasons are given by Bacon and Eltis : both Conservative and Labour governments , because of their adherence to Keynesian economics , were anxious to deal with unemployment quickly by tinkering with the economy ; because of the public demand for improved social services ; and because extra jobs in the public services could be provided cheaply and quickly since no extra capital investment was necessary as would be the case in industry . |
| 14 | As long as a strong argument or sound reasons are given for your opinions they will stand on their own . |
| 15 | It is to be recommended that full reasons are given to the third party solicitor . |
| 16 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Other examples of unlawful objects are given by their Lordships in the Crofter case . |
| 18 | He proposes that conditions and facilities which prisoners are given routinely should be described as ‘ normal expectations ’ , not ‘ privileges ’ . |
| 19 | Prisoners are given some choice as to which prison they go to ; what work they do ; what training or education courses they undertake . |
| 20 | All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full . |
| 21 | Under its unique regime , prisoners are given the chance through therapy to come to terms with their crimes , and hopefully start a new life . |
| 22 | What I did not realise before was that whilst new accounts are given much publicity and the rates of interest are proudly displayed , the accounts of existing investors no longer available to fresh punters are discreetly removed from such lists . |
| 23 | The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) . |
| 24 | Particular touching states are given by including general or particular excursion conditions . |
| 25 | Some farmers have even improved their workers ' conditions as a result : at least Westerners are giving Third World workers one small thing of value . |
| 26 | The important thing is to make sure that those people that have got those particular skills are given those roles to be able to perform that role perform use those skills . |
| 27 | Why , then , are some historians so busily proliferating new historically specific ‘ data types ’ by implementing them in proprietary software while the computer-literate researchers in disciplines are giving generic definition to their eccentric datum so they may be implemented on any platform which permits user-defined objects ? |
| 28 | No numerical illustrations are given because it is the very nature of the techniques described that they are successful on large problems — too large to illustrate explicitly here . |
| 29 | Illustrations are given in ex.3b from the D minor String Quartet for an upbeat , and ex.3c from Die Zäuberflote for a downbeat . |
| 30 | These policies are given in Appendix 1 . |