Example sentences of "give [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far we have examined the union membership decision treating wages as an exogenously given parameter . |
| 2 | This in turn distressed her , because although she had confessed before Padre Jorge to having told a lie of excuse and had been given penance and absolution for her sin , she was being obliged , in effect , to re-tell the same lie over and over again . |
| 3 | The Earth 's own magnetic field has a pulse frequency of 10 Hz ( 10 pulses/second ) and it has been found that if patients are placed in magnetic fields of around 10 Hz , or are given electro-acupuncture at 10 Hz , healing can be speeded up . |
| 4 | Students should be given experience of steering the glider off to one side so that they learn how to use the controls independently instead of co-ordinating them . |
| 5 | 16.33 Pupils should be taught how to handle , and be given experience in using , information and media texts of a variety of kinds . |
| 6 | And indeed , Tarpy and McIntosh ( 1977 ) , using a procedure likely to be more sensitive ( involving , among other things , a weaker US and prolonged testing ) , were able to demonstrate substantial latent inhibition in rats given exposure to a variety of flavours before conditioning . |
| 7 | Kalat and Rozin ( 1973 ) suggested that subjects given exposure to a novel flavour are capable of learning that the flavour predicts no aversive consequence , that the taste is ‘ safe ’ . |
| 8 | Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme . |
| 9 | Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme . |
| 10 | In primary care prescribers rightly expect a safe and accurate dispensing service , but they have lost the regular advisory service and are most often given drug information by drug company representatives . |
| 11 | After struggling in the first half when playing into the wind , they made certain later ; then came the news that Newcastle Gosforth 's defeat at Bedford had given West Hartlepool promotion . |
| 12 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 13 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 14 | The urban child needs to be given opportunity to explore the quieter reflective world of woodland and meadow . |
| 15 | It is also of great importance that children should be given opportunity to develop their skills . |
| 16 | Children — Care proceedings — Prohibited steps order — Local authority seeking interim care order — Justices making prohibited steps orders — Representatives not given opportunity to make submissions as to appropriateness of order — Order prohibiting contact between parents — Whether court entitled to interfere with justices ' exercise of discretion — Whether justices entitled to make orders — Children Act 1989 ( c. 41 ) , s. 8 |
| 17 | Road Traffic — Blood specimen — Requirement — Breath testing device not working — Custody officer informing defendant of right to provide blood or urine and requiring blood specimen — Defendant not given opportunity to express preference — Whether requirement for blood specimen validly made — Road Traffic Act 1988 ( c. 52 ) , ss. 7(3) ( b ) ( 4 ) , 8(2) |
| 18 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 19 | Mr Lucas said Michael worked for Bond Corporation for around five years and was trusted so greatly he was given responsibility for the security of international VIPs who visited Western Australia during Bond 's America 's Cup defence three years ago . |
| 20 | A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service . |
| 21 | It was more closely mapped in the new Regulations for Further Education in 1946 , with Local Education Authorities given responsibility for initiatives in conjunction with the universities and voluntary bodies . |
| 22 | A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London 's transport services . |
| 23 | ‘ Where children are given responsibility they are placed in situations where it becomes important for them to communicate — to discuss , to negotiate , to converse — with their fellows , with the staff , with other adults . |
| 24 | In 1902 the county councils were given responsibility for the planning and provision of secondary education . |
| 25 | We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole . |
| 26 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 27 | Under LMS , where governing bodies are given responsibility for matters that affect health and safety , they will be potentially liable for any offences against the 1974 Health and Safety Act caused by their decisions . |
| 28 | To ensure that hospital consultants — whose decisions effectively commit sums of money — are involved in the management of hospitals ; are given responsibility for the use of resources ; and are encouraged to use those resources more effectively . |
| 29 | The idea of the clinical directorate is that the groupings of service providers can be given responsibility for organising their work including its planning and budgeting control . |
| 30 | The study did not show any major differences between doctors and nurses , indicating that nurses who are specifically trained to assess attempted suicide patients and who work in a team where there is a psychiatrist available for consultation and supervision can be given responsibility for the initial assessment of these patients . |