Example sentences of "given [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other was the offspring of doting , bourgeois parents , who should have given off the opposite kind of vibrations . |
| 2 | The reason given for the ban was that Professor Saburo Ienaga , a noted historian , had refused to strike out a reference in his book to bacteriological and other experiments carried out on Chinese prisoners of war by the now-defunct Imperial Army . |
| 3 | The official reason given for the committee 's demise was that it had indulged in counterrevolution and illicit dealings with foreign powers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 6 | The agreements on EFR had been signed in early 1989 and in October of the same year outline permission was given for the building of a £300 million ‘ demonstration ’ reprocessing plant at Dounreay to recycle EFR 's spent plutonium fuel . |
| 7 | It was the belief of many of its members that if explanations and theories were to be given for the facts collected in their natural histories , they were to be given in mechanical terms , specifically in terms of the corpuscular theory . |
| 8 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 9 | Count Hubner was referring specifically to the reception given for the members of the diplomatic corps on 1 January 1854 , the first of these occasions in which the Empress participated since her marriage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Here permission was given for the construction of a large courtyard development of twenty-six houses and flats , quite out of character with the compact eighteenth-century house , in the belief that the profits yielded from the sale of the flats would go back into the house . |
| 12 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 13 | No reason was given for the departure of Rourke at the time , and this only served to intensify speculation . |
| 14 | One reason often given for the dispersal of books is their appearance , and not their physical state — any shabbiness or indication that people might actually be reading them — but the visual appeal of their dust-jacket design . |
| 15 | No opportunity was ever given for the ‘ Šiptars ’ to exercise their promised right of self-determination . |
| 16 | The process of psychology tends to offer a denial of personal responsibility in life ; no space is given for the truth of the soul 's own choice of its own learning and need for experience and atonement . |
| 17 | The proposed temporary arrangements were explained and authority was given for the advance of £200 or £300 in temporary loans to some of the workmen to enable them to replace tools destroyed . |
| 18 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 19 | Authority was never given for the benefit of the person in authority , but only as a tool to serve those under that authority . |
| 20 | However , if due allowance is given for the provision of free or low-cost ground tuition provided in the UK , the range should probably be increased by about £5 per hour to £53–£66 per hour , which covers about two-thirds of those establishments included in the analysis . |
| 21 | When a signal was given for the ladies to retire , leaving the men to their port and cigars , Sarah hurried to the kitchen , scurrying like a rabbit for shelter . |
| 22 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 23 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 24 | PERMISSION has been given for the erection of a replacement dwelling at 65 Ashurst Cottage , Fairview Road , Headley Down . |
| 25 | PERMISSION has been given for the erection of a stable block at Ashlea House , in South Town Road , Medstead . |
| 26 | The female has a colour pattern which almost fits that given for the Threadfin Goldie . |
| 27 | ‘ biblical standard , given for the well-being of society ... [ that ] fornication , adultery and homosexual acts are sinful in all circumstances ... [ and that ] Christian leaders are called on to be exemplary in all spheres of morality , including sexual morality , as a condition of being appointed to or remaining in office . |
| 28 | Please write to the addresses given for the individual courses ( NOT to Ideal Home ) , enclosing an sae for your booking form — applications can not be processed without one . |
| 29 | It is a basic but rarely articulated feature of the modern economic system that the highest pay is given for the work that is most prestigious and most agreeable . |
| 30 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |