Example sentences of "was give [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No warning was given of this . |
| 2 | But when at last the planes turned away and headed for land , the order was given for all passengers to get below . |
| 3 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 4 | If there were too many missing responses no score was given for that student . |
| 5 | Er , the only authority that was given was the authority to arm the officers by Mr which he would have put in to writing , er he was aware as to the method of entry to the of the flat but that no authority , no written authority was given for that . |
| 6 | One predominant reason was given for this low level of concern about professional development amongst arts teachers , although two very distinct responses were given . |
| 7 | The point was given for any answer between 55 mins and 1 hr 38 mins . |
| 8 | No hint of what was to come was given at that meeting on 20 February . |
| 9 | At the outset he was given at most a one-in-10 chance of survival . |
| 10 | As for the promise to ban fox-hunting , it was given with such a blithe nonchalance as to be spine-chilling . |
| 11 | From day 11 to 20 a dose of 5 mmol sodium sulphate in gelatin capsules , was given with each main meal ( 15 mmol/day ) . |
| 12 | Beauty and the Beast proved highly popular and was given with many casts during later seasons ; it has also been revived for several other companies , with various designers . |
| 13 | A great welcome was given to all the visitors by the Rotary Club , by the K-Post 11 of the American Legion Auxiliary , by the British Ceremony Committee and by the Mayor . |
| 14 | At the outset of the research project , after initial discussions with the Officer-in-charge , a formal briefing was given to all staff explaining the aims of the project and the approach to be taken , giving the opportunity for any questions to be raised . |
| 15 | Similar careful thought was given to all items made available for schools , amongst which was an economical " limited " palette of colours , personally recommended by Basil : a palette , in fact , fit for use by Van Gogh himself . |
| 16 | Vitamin A was given to all children during the final dosing round of each trial . |
| 17 | But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ 's gift . ’ |
| 18 | Dietary advice to achieve a total energy intake of 120–150% of the recommended daily allowance for age , with approximately 40% of the total energy intake derived from fat , was given to each patient . |
| 19 | Consideration was given to several different job evaluation schemes and , finally , a points-rated scheme somewhat reminiscent of the Hay-MSL approach was adopted . |
| 20 | Initially this was given to both individual home buyers and investors , although this policy was later reviewed to exclude investors . |
| 21 | A not insignificant push was given to this development with the decline in morale among expatriate workers in the oil industry following the assassination of a senior oil-company secondee near Ahwaz late in 1978 . |
| 22 | The trade name Permutit was given to this patented ion exchange process , it being derived from the Latin verb to exchange . |
| 23 | A restrictive interpretation was given to this expression in R & B Customs Brokers Ltd v UDT Finance Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 847 where the Court of Appeal held that a purchase is only in the course of business if ( a ) it is integral to the business or ( b ) there is some degree of regularity of similar transactions ( see also Peter Symons & Co v Cook ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 758 ; Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 ) . |
| 24 | A further boost was given to these hopes by Göring 's speech , four days later , at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival , promising an improvement in the availability of foodstuffs . |
| 25 | The fact that the band refused to do videos and that very little TV promotion was given to these singles did n't help either . |
| 26 | He was given to these sudden spurts of activity , running ahead to hide among the bushes and jump out at her , leaping across puddles , rummaging for broken bottles and cans in the ditch and hurling them with a desperate intensity into the water . |
| 27 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 28 | ( The other screenplay award was given to another ‘ buddy-buddy ’ movie , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , written by William Goldman , who was to write two of Dustin 's future movies . ) |
| 29 | No explanation was given to those who were turned back , other than the Foreign Ministry 's declaration that this was a ‘ sovereign decision ’ . |
| 30 | Everyone was given equal space and care was given to those of us who found it more difficult because of being deaf or having a speech difficulty . |