Example sentences of "[noun pl] given [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are just carrying out their life in accordance with the rules given them , as all ‘ people ’ including Chewong do . |
| 2 | The tenant should consider deleting both clauses 11.1 and 11.2 though for the reasons given they could perhaps be tolerated if necessary . |
| 3 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given him , I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 4 | My Lords , for the reasons given I would however dismiss this appeal . |
| 5 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 6 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 7 | Could you give guidance on the important matter of confidences given us by constituents ? |
| 8 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 9 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 10 | And why , when it has come to the crunch , have British governments of all political persuasions given it such unswerving support ? |
| 11 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 12 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 13 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 14 | Many kinds of dispute arising out of industrial relations could find their way to the NIRC which , because of its status as a superior court of record and the powers given it by statute , was able to order the payment of fines and , if that or any other of its orders was disregarded , could imprison for contempt . |
| 15 | So I I I mean , but I do n't know whether to take it today or you know because she 'll get a lot of things given her today . |
| 16 | Professor de Bono , there are well-established scales , particularly in the States , measuring long term stress and anxiety that we can use in rehabilitated patients to demonstrate that not only have the cardiologists given them years , but Doctor Bethell and his team have given them quality . |
| 17 | Low stated that he had sent an order to Gen Loehr " to obey all orders given him " by the Yugoslav army . |
| 18 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 19 | If it is n't if you have n't got the two lengths given you 've got you 've got one length plus one angle . |
| 20 | Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia . |
| 21 | Have your publishers given you an advance ? ’ |
| 22 | One typical story recalled the fate of the apocryphal Lupescu , who was the alleged inventor of several scurrilous stories with the Comrade as their butt and who was supposed to supplement his income with hard currency or Western cigarettes given him by his appreciative audience . |
| 23 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 24 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 25 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |
| 26 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 27 | However , from the facts given it seems that , based on normal accountancy principles , the Inspector must be incorrect in assessing the profit based on the date of order when this was in advance of the delivery of goods or performance of service . |
| 28 | that , we went up there as in actual fact we were looking for certain place when er the postcard we had was n't it , was n't the cows given us trouble and we went |