Example sentences of "[noun pl] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ? |
| 2 | There is no doubt that the three surface positions for adjectives can be correlated with the three intensional patterns given in ( 37 ) . |
| 3 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 4 | These are not the accounts given by spectators and it is difficult to imagine them offering such accounts . |
| 5 | For example , neo-Marxist analyses of bureaucracy and the division of labour have converged on the accounts given by elite theorists ( Parkin , 1979 ) ; and post-Althusserian and post-Gramscian Marxism is indistinguishable from pluralism except in its vocabulary ( Laclau and Mouffe , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Complementary to that record we have the accounts given by those fans of those very occasions and others like them . |
| 7 | Social roles within each of the groups have been isolated primarily from the accounts given by fans and from prolonged observation in the London Road End . |
| 8 | It is within this group that he comes to establish both personal social bonds within his particular sub-group , but also comes to feel part of a wider social collective , as witnessed by the ‘ we 're all in it together ’ type of accounts given by members . |
| 9 | Accounts given by individuals are inevitably selective in content and emphasis , and as we noted in Chapter 3 , the attribution of change to particular policies or causal factors is always difficult . |
| 10 | The primary source of this would be accounts given by the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union . |
| 11 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |
| 12 | 70% of vacant council houses given to those not on the waiting list |
| 13 | But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as : |
| 14 | Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting . |
| 15 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |
| 16 | Reasons given for transnational participation are : continuity of research to overcome shortfalls of younger scientists entering the field in view of the imminent retirement of many senior scientists and to provide advanced training . |
| 17 | The reasons given for involvement follow a clear pattern : ‘ mobilise the masses around precise objectives ’ , ‘ unifying the country ’ , ‘ to help educate the masses and rally support for the government ’ , 'to mobilise the people behind the president and party' , and so on . |
| 18 | Steward cites the medical reasons given for rescue team callouts by friends of youngsters who have collapsed in the hills . |
| 19 | The answer given by the courts in this instance is ‘ yes ’ to both questions , but the reasons given for these conclusions are less than satisfactory . |
| 20 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 21 | They attack the status quo by pointing out that the reasons given for denying rights to children are bad reasons , and then explicitly or implicitly deny them duties for no reason at all . |
| 22 | Of those who had previously worked , the reasons given for their current unemployed state were as follows : short-term MSC contract , or redundancy , 36 per cent ; dismissal because of lateness , etc. , due to heroin use , 23 per cent ; imprisonment , 14 per cent ; collapse of business , 9 per cent ; pregnancy , 9 per cent ; boredom with job , 9 per cent . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 24 | It relates to the reasons given for the justices ' decision . |
| 25 | I agree with the reasons given for having allowed the appeal . |
| 26 | I , too , agree with the reasons given for having allowed the appeal . |
| 27 | I , too , agree with the reasons given for having allowed the appeal . |
| 28 | I , too , agree with the reasons given for having allowed the appeal . |
| 29 | I agree with the reasons given for allowing the appeal . |
| 30 | The reasons given for rejecting this paper are that the brain may compensate for poor hearing by enhancing hearing in the treated ear , resulting in an overestimate of the likely effects of treating both ears . |