Example sentences of "[noun] could be give [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the tagger indicated that a word was a noun then the non-noun lexical entries could be given reduced priority by the ANLT .
2 Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set .
3 The case was concerned with whether a child under the age of 16 years could be given contraceptive advice without the consent of her parents .
4 At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) .
5 In effect , Bruno was arguing that divine attributes could be given physical meaning — as Newton was to do later when he reconstructed space in terms of God 's omnipresence .
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