Example sentences of "[conj] [be] give [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerations that are given deliberative priority in order to secure reliability constitute obligations ; corresponding to those obligations are rights , possessed by people who benefit from the obligations . |
| 2 | From his mother , and her more easy-going and less consciously nonconformist relations , he found sanctions for that profound exploration of sensations that were given early expression in his gift for ‘ composition ’ . |
| 3 | In most cases Members are offered a cheaper rate to attend events and are given preferential admittance over non members . |
| 4 | Around 100 trainees come to the Rathbone Society in Darlington every year and are given initial training at its base on the Lingfield industrial estate . |
| 5 | It has an insidious fascination , and is given added mystery by the surrounding emptiness , which is not simply a physical background to a carefully composed work . |
| 6 | Since that date , however , the government has dragged its heels over permanent legislation , and is giving preferential treatment to commercial stations from which it collects taxes . |
| 7 | Venables continues to pursue Mark Wright , Derby County 's England defender , and is giving serious consideration to the swap proposed by Everton which would take Paul Stewart , Tottenham 's blunt instrument of a centre-forward , to Goodison Park in exchange for Tony Cottee . |
| 8 | Opener David Smith led the run chase with 82 and was given crucial support by Martin Speight who chipped in with 38 . |
| 9 | As a result , he had to be taken away from school and was given private tuition in the evenings from the local school teacher . |
| 10 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 11 | He refused to budge , and was given full support by Douglas-Home , whose diplomatic skills softened the rough edges of Heath 's ‘ extraordinary resolution ’ . |