Example sentences of "[noun] could be given [adj] [noun] " 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 | For similar reasons , the committee rejected an application that barristers employed by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Government Legal Service could be given extended rights of audience . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |