Example sentences of "given greater " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights . |
| 2 | A white paper is expected at the end of this month in response to the Griffiths Report , which recommended that authorities be given greater responsibility for the mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | Mr Delors said that in the short run MEPs should be given greater powers to hold the EC executive responsible when national governments transferred powers to Brussels — under a new European treaty for economic and monetary union . |
| 4 | They had convinced him that no radical change in Defence policy would be negotiable unless the Minister of Defence was given greater powers to override the special pleading of the Admiralty , the War Office , the Air Ministry , and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 5 | Schools have been given greater autonomy and greater exposure to market forces , both of which are significantly altering their information requirements . |
| 6 | Individuals must be given greater rights to belong the union of their choice . |
| 7 | 15.37 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 6 should be encouraged to work in a wider range of situations in which their individual contributions are given greater emphasis . |
| 8 | The long history of contempt for the Poles fostered by the Prussians was given greater depth when , as a result of German defeat in 1918 , Poland — against all the odds — was revived . |
| 9 | However , it is given greater symmetry and therefore becomes a fairer competition for the contestants . |
| 10 | Under the provisions of Part H of the Public Order Act of 1986 the police have been given greater powers in the regulation of processions and assemblies . |
| 11 | Relevance to post was also mentioned by both groups , but given greater prominence by the group with no training officers : |
| 12 | The very existence of such a high-profile federally-sponsored project has given greater confidence to planners elsewhere to adopt their own solutions to local problems . |
| 13 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 14 | Administrators have been given greater access to confidential documents , which could facilitate taking legal action against auditors and other advisers . |
| 15 | Of course it is admirable that expectations are high and that women should be given greater autonomy ( and hope for more in the sexual area than their Victorian forebears ) . |
| 16 | For such pupils oral work should be given greater emphasis initially , though the skills of reading and writing must not be neglected . |
| 17 | The earlier introduction of waxed and french-polished woods had already given greater scope to the imagination of the coffin-maker . |
| 18 | As will be seen later , data-base technology in its present form has some deficiencies in modelling complex objects and events , the solution of which will be given greater impetus by involvement in new challenging areas . |
| 19 | Mountain bikers have been given greater access to Lancashire 's most impressive countryside with new routes created by the West Pennine Moors Countryside Service . |
| 20 | If British tennis is to ever rise above the mediocrity that it has wallowed in for decades , then juniors have to be given greater access to courts and coaching . |
| 21 | They argue that the barriers to participation which exist in society should be given greater recognition . |
| 22 | At length , in 1987 , the small companies were given greater access to the network and the number of network hours was reduced by about a quarter . |
| 23 | There is some pattern in that commercial matters are given greater freedom , while issues pertaining to the military are subject to greater control . |
| 24 | Promotion opportunities have also been restricted and in the competition for higher status positions , personal merit evaluation is now given greater weight in determining pay and position . |
| 25 | Such relative uniformity may also have given greater cohesion to the Angevin Empire , for its major towns from Rouen to La Rochelle and Bayonne shared the Etablissements . |
| 26 | The effect of this is that while financial intermediaries have been given greater freedom to broaden the range of financial services they may offer , this relaxation has been compensated for by regulating each individual sector more thoroughly . |
| 27 | As we shall see in Chapter 11 on deviance , the activities of groups with fewer power resources are much more likely to be labelled as ‘ social problems ’ and be given greater publicity than are those of the more dominant social groups in society . |
| 28 | Ironically , however , the mobility of the evidence may increase the chances of discovery since it will be given greater exposure . |
| 29 | That possibility has been given greater prominence by subsequent development since T. 's mother has recently left this area and joined T. 's father in his new life in another county . |
| 30 | The local oborknezovi were given greater authority , the rights of the Orthodox Churches were respected , and a local Serbian militia was permitted . |