Example sentences of "[vb mod] be given [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said earlier I do not think that this is an area where the district councils should be given a completely free rein to interpret the matter within their own local plans . |
| 2 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee took the view that the phrase ‘ without consent ’ was a legal term which should be given a highly circumscribed interpretation . |
| 3 | The justification given could be that it is easier to control girls than boys , and therefore the ‘ stronger ’ teachers should be given the more difficult classes , i.e. the boys ' classes . |
| 4 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
| 5 | If the conservation movement had the same kind of publicity budget , the public might be given a more balanced picture . |
| 6 | Another white kitchen could be given a totally different look by adding green plastic handles and importing masses of plants and some green painted bamboo blinds . |
| 7 | The reforming jurists , on the other hand , saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects , as juridical subjects ; it uses not marks , but signs , coded sets of representations , which would be given the most rapid circulation and the most general acceptance possible by citizens witnessing the scene of punishment . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman need not think that there is any military support for the idea that in the past the Navy has argued for a three-boat solution , and he will be given a very rough time by the Navy if he makes such a suggestion . |
| 9 | Just 12 months ago , Salford were contesting a Lancashire Cup final against Wigan , but whoever succeeds Ashcroft will be given a more familiar brief , simply to avoid the drop . |
| 10 | Dreary reproduction chairs can be given a thoroughly modern look , smartened up with paint and the seats covered with a strongly textured fabric like tweed or corduroy . |
| 11 | M-tense can be given a purely deictic and strictly temporal interpretation , but it is an empirical question as to what extent L-tenses can also be treated in the same way . |
| 12 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |