Example sentences of "given [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to answering Questions and the handling of all departmental business in the Commons , the Parliamentary Secretary was given responsibility for legal aid and the development of legal services ; relations with the Land Registry and Public Record Office ; some budget and resource matters ; and equal opportunities and women 's issues outside the judicial context . |
| 2 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 3 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 4 | Pruning go-ahead : Darlington Borough Council , which is responsible for tree felling , has given permission for extensive pruning work to be done on an oak tree at Hawkswood in Hurworth Place . |
| 5 | First , the mother lacked parenting skills which had given rise to emotional harm caused to the children . |
| 6 | Migration processes have also given rise to distinctive age patterns around Britain , though the absolute scale of differences between places is relatively small . |
| 7 | The second of these three articles of agreement had given rise to tripartite action against a rising of west Galician Poles in 1846 . |
| 8 | By the autumn of 1283 the danger of Armagnac submission to the immediate lordship of the French crown appeared to have passed , but the behaviour of Philip III 's officers , especially his seneschal of Toulouse , had given rise to great concern among Edward I 's Gascon council at Bordeaux and among his proctors and advocates at Paris . |
| 9 | The people of Palau have shown a marked reluctance to alter their nuclear policy to comply with United States ' demands , which in turn has given rise to economic deprivation , intimidation , and violent criminal acts directed against the opponents of the Compact . |
| 10 | The distinction between the intermediate and the aggravated offence has also given rise to adverse comment . |
| 11 | These limits have given rise to thorny debate in at least two areas which serve as a reminder that it is not only nonhuman animals which are put at risk : |
| 12 | During the 1930s , for example , family allowances were seen by increasing numbers of people as a method of combating the falling birth rate which had given rise to widespread fear of an ever declining population . |
| 13 | The negotiations , which had reached their seventh round and had given rise to considerable optimism , centred on the creation of internationally managed reception centres in Vietnam . |
| 14 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 15 | It is clear that where service is required to be effected in a Contracting State , the provisions of the convention , as given effect in national law or as a self-executing Treaty , will prevail over the general law as to service of process . |
| 16 | Dr Van Vliet wants the growing countries , including Burma , China , India , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines and Thailand , to be given help for artificial propagation when the trade in wild plants is banned . |
| 17 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |
| 18 | It was given approval after careful consideration by a Government committee on the ethics of genetics which is supervising developments on what is now medicine 's most controversial frontier . |
| 19 | Three trainees were given instruction in geological map preparation and report writing using field data collected during the 1989–90 field season . |
| 20 | A computer would have to be given knowledge about human eating habits before it could interpret this . |
| 21 | Given goodwill on British Coal 's part , the first ‘ private ’ coal could be coming out of these mines by Christmas . |
| 22 | A bicameral parliament at Stormont near Belfast was given control of domestic policy on matters that did not affect other parts of the United kingdom . |
| 23 | A number of attractive prospects that have been identified will be given priority for early drilling . |
| 24 | Workers given news at mass meeting |
| 25 | He also ruled that Noriega 's lawyers must obtain the court 's approval before being given access to classified government documents connected with the case . |
| 26 | Sun Alliance has given notice to National Home Loans that it is cancelling its payment protection scheme at the end of the month . |
| 27 | Our particular experience has been mainly concerned with hypertext coursework , though we have also given thought to other document preparation systems . |
| 28 | But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’ |
| 29 | The lighting and keeping of the hearth fire have always been given significance in human culture ; the Greeks named their goddess of the hearth Hestia , later to be replaced by the Roman Vesta , whose handmaidens were the famous Vestal Virgins . |
| 30 | Are managers of nurses given information about annual leave arrangements of other staff ? |