Example sentences of "[adv] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 2 | That is a document which is effectively given for the protection of the Vendor . |
| 3 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 4 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 5 | The Cutty Sark was eventually given to the Cutty Sark Society in 1953 and she was restored to look just as she did during her sailing days . |
| 6 | In the event , the CEP evidence was eventually given by the individuals responsible under the banner of the then Cornwall-based campaigner George Pritchard , although it would undoubtedly have helped its status to be seen as part of the local councils ' case . |
| 7 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 8 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 9 | If he did not touch such heights again , he remained a thoroughly reliable keeper right to the end , small , neat and quiet , and rarely given to histrionics . |
| 10 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 11 | In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , the greatest honour that could be conferred upon a scientist , and one rarely given to a zoologist . |
| 12 | This account is rarely given in isolation . |
| 13 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 14 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 15 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 16 | Finally , Mr. Langley submitted that there was a strong presumption against the court having made an order which could have the effect of overriding or emasculating section 39 , and that it would be wrong to construe the injunction as being inconsistent with powers expressly given by Parliament to the Bank of England . |
| 17 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 18 | France oscillated between mid-nineteenth-century free trade and , more lastingly , protectionism : slow to industrialize , France , for most of the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) , was little given to central planning or state interventionism . |
| 19 | ( The chords shown in Example 83 are limited only to those with the root on C , and are mostly given with notes in close formation . |
| 20 | I have had one or two in recent years , mostly given to me by kind people , but things did n't work out with them . |
| 21 | He has since given over his castle to the worship of Isis . |
| 22 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 23 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 24 | Although medical education may pay some attention to the social sciences in the pre-clinical curriculum , the highest priority is still overwhelmingly given to the so called ‘ hard sciences ’ . |
| 25 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 26 | Similar advice was apparently given by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party , i.e. that ‘ the gate to victory is a disciplined and powerful Bolshevik Party ’ and it goes without saying that in Stalin 's Russia deviation by small and not exactly successful communist parties abroad was not encouraged . |
| 27 | Among the drawings Oberhuber transfers to Giorgione a group hitherto given to Giulio Campagnola — a logical step which may or may not prove correct . |
| 28 | The following year saw the passing by Parliament of legislation protecting foreign diplomats against criminal and civil proceedings — the most explicit undertaking of this kind hitherto given by any state — and a special mission to Moscow to apologise to Peter I for the insult offered to his representative . |
| 29 | Area Health Authority to apply on four hours ' notice to all parties ( such notice to be sufficiently given by telephone ) to vary or discharge this injunction . |
| 30 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |