Example sentences of "be given [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Van Vliet wants the growing countries , including Burma , China , India , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines and Thailand , to be given help for artificial propagation when the trade in wild plants is banned . |
| 2 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 3 | A computer would have to be given knowledge about human eating habits before it could interpret this . |
| 4 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 5 | Users should not be given access to this account . |
| 6 | A number of attractive prospects that have been identified will be given priority for early drilling . |
| 7 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |
| 8 | A treaty may bind the government in international law but will normally be given effect within this country by the passing of legislation . |