Example sentences of "[noun] give [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 The fact is that there is no privilege for confidences given to hon. Members .
32 In this context the panel have been instructed to consider each individual regional station 's commitment to Irish music and the exposure given to new , untried bands .
33 Instruction in the faith given in late teens or early twenties is essential , essential for young people , both those who 've received communion in earlier years and those who have not .
34 However , because it groups entries alphabtically according to the areas of responsibility given to particular topic editors , it can be slightly confusing .
35 Older and tougher belief on the same issue is embodied in another tale Tolkien had probably read , the Scottish story of ‘ The Woman of Peace and the Bible Reader ’ : in this an elf-woman approaches an old man reading his Bible and asks ‘ if there was any hope given in holy Scripture for such as she ’ .
36 It remains true that all of the major parameters of Course regulations and management remain today as they were established by David Mobbs ; all that has changed is the values given to certain parts of the equation .
37 This explanation does not work so well for the majority of the texts of Scaevola , which are not excerpts from a dogmatic tract in which the jurist was discussing the disparate regimes of legacy and trust , but opinions given in practical cases .
38 A specially commissioned painting by railway artist Simon Bowditch will be unveiled for the first time during the day , and limited edition copies given to local dignitaries .
39 Volume Two of a 10 volume series , this particular video contains two films , Watch and Ward in the Air a 1937 film showing the basics of air navigation for land based aircraft with special considerations given for flying boats .
40 Last year there were two hundred and sixteen thousand cautions given for indictable offences , those serious enough to be tried in a crown court .
41 Changes in the aid given to poor petitioners in 1914 , together with the effects of World War I , produced an increase in the divorce rate after 1918 , but it was not until 1946 that legal aid became freely available and therefore not until 1951 that divorce petitions began to come from a cross section of the population .
42 Specific things are requested — offerings of flowers for passing an examination , or burning oil for relief from illness in the next life , and sometimes in this life , and thanks given for safe journeys , or the safe birth of a baby .
43 True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends .
44 The auks , while they do not appear to recognise man as a benefactor , certainly are aware of the signals given by other birds .
45 Indeed a major element of constitutional law concerns ways and means of preventing the abuse of the force given to lawful authorities for the purpose of enforcing the law .
46 Nasalised vowels are found in the words given in phonetic transcription below .
47 For instance , two postures given by blue ties threatening each other at a bird table accurately predict escape about 90 per cent of the time ( Figure 3 ) .
48 They certainly provide no good evidence for reducing the weight given to standardised mortality ratios in the formula and there is no justification for encouraging the use of the national formula for subregional allocation .
49 Clanchy shows that , between 1066 and 1307 in England , the criteria for validation of land rights and other significant social facts , and the relative weight given to written and oral criteria in such validation changed as a direct result of political pressures ( 1979 ) .
50 The most interesting aspect of the trace representation is the use of excitatory and inhibitory links to control dynamically the relative weight given to different kinds of evidence .
51 His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years .
52 As a result , despite the potentially strong bargaining hand which the pre-war boom gave to skilled labour , workers sustained an almost unbroken record of failure in strike action .
53 A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month .
54 The first law of thermodynamics gives for adiabatic contraction .
55 The week is funded by Apollo 's umbrella sponsorship and by individual scholarships given by National Federations and by " patron " companies .
56 Once this was discovered , the amount of oxygen given to young babies was carefully monitored and a dramatic fall in the number of cases resulted .
57 It is well established that hypoxia occurs during endoscopic procedures and that oxygen given during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP ) will significantly diminish the degree of oxygen desaturation .
58 Next , compensation given to employees specifically recruited to undertake fixed-term contracts overseas is covered and lastly , the chapter examines assistance given to foreign expatriates relocated to Britain .
59 3.1 The Personal Allowance of £468 for GS1/2 Staff compares unfavourably with the allowance of £763 given for New Technology .
60 Mannheim recognized that the prominence given to generational differences , and the likelihood that organized generational groups would be formed , depended upon many other social conditions .
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