Example sentences of "[noun] [be] given [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 2 | The wise heads realised that when a side is given such consistent attacking time points must be scored . |
| 3 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 4 | Contradictory discourses and practices within and between these agencies of socialization are given little serious attention . |
| 5 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 6 | Mr Reed , Mr Cohen and Mr Wells were given 18-month suspended sentences . |
| 7 | This was judged by patient history and counting residual tablets ( the placebo and ursodeoxycholic acid were given double blind ) when the prescriptions were renewed and compliance in taking the prescribed tablets were excellent . |
| 8 | The Emperor Sigismund was given this huge enchanted horn by the Dwarfs after the battle of Grimgrill Dale . |
| 9 | Three other officers were given suspended three-year sentences for destroying evidence . |
| 10 | Do n't be afraid to play with colour — this basic cream trouser suit is given instant chic with a pastel body suit and some co-ordinating accessories . |
| 11 | At 17/971 , first right through the archway are the remains of the Monastery and Church of St Michael , an important church for the followers of Jan Hus , where many of his friends preached and where the sacrament was given sub utraque specie , in both kinds ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 12 | But , unlike its predecessor , both these and the earlier historical items are given little social or economic context . |
| 13 | In an experiment , people were given three identical T-shirts to smell and asked to select the one that they had worn . |
| 14 | The 27 inoperable or irresectable patients were given palliative non-surgical treatment . |
| 15 | Party A , imagined to have won 45.4% of the constituency votes , has a claim to six seats ( 50.0% ) , and having won five in constituencies is given one additional seat . |
| 16 | No creature is given such complete supremacy as to dominate all others , even man . |
| 17 | A draft constitution was given overwhelming popular approval in a referendum on March 9 . |
| 18 | The EC Treaties are given direct legal effect in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 . |
| 19 | In Nick Darke 's Kissing the Pope , however , the Sandinistas are given unequivocal white-hat status : a visit to Nicaragua apparently convinced him and his director Roger Michell that that unhappy land was ‘ one of the world 's few areas of moral black and white ’ . |
| 20 | Medicine 's growing number of critics were given important empirical support by the work of Thomas McKeown , which exposed not only its present limitations but threw doubt on its past successes . |
| 21 | FIVE schoolchildren in Japan were given 100-volt electric shocks for not bringing textbooks to class . |
| 22 | Then , weary but triumphant , with sufficient guards set and scouting parties out to ensure that no possible rallying of the enemy endangered them , the victors were given one final item of news before they couched down to sleep . |
| 23 | Women could not normally inherit in other ancient Near Eastern countries , but in Israel the ruling is given that brotherless daughters may inherit . |
| 24 | In 1985 Mr Carway was given two suspended sentences , one in the UK for possession of cannabis , and another in Ireland for cheque fraud . |
| 25 | Here the notion of the railway station as city gate was given direct architectural form as at London 's Euston half a century earlier . |
| 26 | He simplified the alphabet and gradually , as the everyday speech of the élite was given new literary form , Church Slavonic was displaced . |
| 27 | Over the next two decades it was rebuilt to include many fine Georgian houses and in 1725 the then humble parsonage was given this handsome new front by an unknown architect . |
| 28 | Again , we see the need for flexibility in the control structure , with each component being given enough free rein to contribute fully , but not so much as to force it to take decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 29 | The pupils were given two parallel tests on some length criteria at an interval of two months . |
| 30 | Steam inhalations were given four hourly and Mr Brown was given analgesia prior to physiotherapy . |