Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been much advice given in recent years to plant with the graft bud just at or below the soil surface . |
| 2 | There are in fact many interpretations and explanations of this strange aspect of communication , just as there are many names given to the phenomenon itself . |
| 3 | In an asset sale the provisions most likely to restrict competition are non-competition covenants given by the vendor to the purchaser or any arrangement purporting to divide up geographic or product markets . |
| 4 | And the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Albemarle Street was that day announcing that there were to be eight lectures given by Mr. Faraday on Static or Franklinic Electricity , to commence on 21 April . |
| 5 | ‘ There should be more attention given to anti-pollution education for the people of Darlington — after all they are the ones to blame , ’ said Coun Walker . |
| 6 | The biggest parties were moving-out parties given by people who were finally able to afford a bigger house . ’ |
| 7 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 8 | ‘ They were taken over 18 months ago , and there were certain assurances given at that time , ’ Mr Torpey said . |
| 9 | Unless there is regular guidance given to parents through workshops and school produced booklets the arrival home of the reading book will be seen as little more than an opportunity to check when the teacher last heard their child read and a chance to rush their child to the next stage on the reading scheme . |
| 10 | This approach to leadership means there is more attention given to selection as opposed to the training of leaders . |
| 11 | The Directive contains several references to ‘ the conservation of the countryside ’ although nowhere is any definition given of precisely what was meant by this term . |
| 12 | Input is any data given to a program for the computer to act on . |
| 13 | Only in the case of two men at Fleet Marston , Bucks. , is any hint given of what else they owned , and its utility is minimal . |
| 14 | However , its major tangible result was economic aid given by France ; on Feb. 6 it was announced that France would donate F3,820 million ( US$704 million ) in credits to Russia . |
| 15 | Was such advice given to the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal hospital ? |
| 16 | Yet there was serious thought given to his continued involvement by McGeechan , a 45-year-old public relations manager with Scottish Life . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |