Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenfield has attempted to apply this to other cultures , using questionnaires given to Wolof children to establish an empirical basis for the distinction ( 1972 ) . |
| 2 | Omero knew exactly what she meant as he had broken a tooth as a result of eating rock given to him by visitors at Easter , and sometimes it really hurts . |
| 3 | Press releases given in technical language , with a large number of figures and percentages , were not easy to listen to and understand when broadcast . |
| 4 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) . |
| 6 | The late-eleventh-century Durham tract De Obsessione Dunelmi states that after his death Eadwulf , his brother and successor as earl of Bernicia , surrendered Lothian ( i.e. territory beyond the Tweed ) to Malcolm , but yet another Durham work , the De Primo Saxonum Adventu , has Lothian given to the Scots by Edgar . |
| 7 | Booking priority given to people aged 14–25 who also do the follow-up workshop ( See below ) . |
| 8 | One sentence , which must appear on all right-to-cancel notices given to timeshare customers , is 102 words long . ’ |
| 9 | Most Americans wishes to stay out of war , but were prepared to see help given to the enemies of Fascism . |
| 10 | an evaluation of two kinds of training in writing skills given to a smaller group of postgraduates . |
| 11 | Some churches also long possessed objects given to them by Cnut , which occasionally bore inscriptions to that effect , like the reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which he presented to the monastery of Abingdon . |
| 12 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 13 | ‘ We are confident that by the end of March there will be no one in the North-East on a waiting list for more than two years meeting guarantees given in the Patient 's Charter . |
| 14 | A computer will process instructions given via a program in order to produce output . |
| 15 | The personal representatives have the powers to maintain and advance children given to trustees by the Trustee Act 1925 . |
| 16 | This provides that if any religious houses alienate tenements given to them by the king or other founders , those tenements shall be recoverable by the donor or his heirs , the buyer losing both the tenement and the purchase price . |
| 17 | There 's a photograph of her , and I 'm quite sure we can give Joan to give to Vera one of those . |
| 18 | The two companies had sought to have withdrawn undertakings given to the MMC 15 years ago when it last investigated their grip on cross-Channel routes . |
| 19 | During the second phase , the analysts had also investigated systems that were then available for filing system support , using statements given in the FAOR report as a basis for defining the type and level of system required , eg : |
| 20 | The reception , supported by the Glenmorangie Distillery Co. , was attended by several of MacDiarmid 's friends and contemporaries , who heard a lively and enlightening talk given by the writer Owen Dudley Edwards . |
| 21 | At an inclusive cost per golfer of £50 , the Academy day starts with breakfast and includes tuition given on an individual basis ; a group lesson ; a four-course lunch with wine ; Stableford competition and a champagne reception and prize-giving . |
| 22 | It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries , and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce . |
| 23 | Emma-Jane Mac had earlier given Coomes Bookmakers a chance to recoup money given in sponsorship when winning their contest on the 14-1 Everest Gringo . |
| 24 | The FNT had also accused the government of breaking promises given during a similar strike in May [ see p. 37450 ] not to dismiss large numbers of state employees . |
| 25 | And , a definition of the excellent guest , one who keeps promises given during the hospitality : as well as giving the lad his own Sallust , Johnson promised to create the introductions by which young MacAulay could enter university , and he kept his word , although the boy eventually chose not to avail himself of it . |
| 26 | v. Perry contains a clear ratio that , in the absence of proof of agency , a creditor can enforce security given by the wife of the debtor notwithstanding that the security has been procured by the undue influence of the debtor over the surety and whether or not the surety has a proper understanding of the transaction . |
| 27 | There can , after all , be more than one possible explanation why a witness may retract evidence given by him on a previous occasion ; and , as must have been contemplated in Reg. v. Donat , 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , one possibility may be that it is the later retraction , rather than the earlier evidence , which is not worthy of belief . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal allowed her to see them , deciding that although the reports might contain information given in confidence , yet the public interest in parties to litigation being able fully to prove their case and so not be denied justice outweighed the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of pupil files . |
| 29 | The professional takes power to give to the client self-determination . |
| 30 | It was like stealing fire to give to humans . |