Example sentences of "been given for " in BNC.

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1 After two months , a settlement of 17 per cent was agreed , but the green light had been given for others to follow on .
2 When the aircraft took off , at last , with a mere 18 missiles , no clearance had been given for overflights between Tel Aviv and Tehran .
3 An explanation has been given for aggregation in the dark in terms of a simple behavioural response .
4 my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these .
5 A similar explanation has been given for imbalances in the rodent fauna from the Pliocene at Laetoli , Tanzania ( Denys , 1985,1986 ) .
6 The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 .
7 PERMISSION has been given for the erection of a replacement dwelling at 65 Ashurst Cottage , Fairview Road , Headley Down .
8 PERMISSION has been given for the erection of a stable block at Ashlea House , in South Town Road , Medstead .
9 Treatment had been given for periods ranging from two weeks to over 10 years .
10 Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney .
11 Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition .
12 Two further reasons have been given for the establishment of government-owned newspapers or for the taking over of existing privately owned ones .
13 This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange .
14 At their next meeting instructions had been given for a rendezvous .
15 An encouraging development is that the opportunity has been given for a submission to be made in early autumn on behalf of the preserved railway movement to the House of Commons Select Committee which will be dealing with the Government 's privatisation proposals .
16 Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men .
17 Mr. A. Harman , confidential clerk at the brewery , wrote to Whitbread saying that the Attorney-General ( Spencer Perceval ) had stated that he knew of no security having been given for the sum of money in Mr. Whitbread 's will .
18 There is a well known Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz in which a girl is sitting at her school desk querying the C-grade she 's been given for her ‘ sculpture ’ made from a coat-hanger .
19 While SynOptics says that adaptor boards for other physical layer and computer system interfaces will be added , no time-scale has yet been given for their development .
20 The form of T k has been given for a variety of cosmological models in refs 19 , 28 .
21 No value has been given for the OEM agreement .
22 The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results .
23 That this is the case stands , quite independently of the reasons which may have been given for not doing so in the past , reasons which may or may not appear cogent today .
24 Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases .
25 A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields .
26 Several reasons have been given for the rapid growth of the professions .
27 If , on the other hand , ‘ domicile ’ had the meaning which that term had been given for the purposes of the application of the Brussels Convention , it must be assimilated to residence .
28 Many reasons have been given for its demise : the potential high cost of registry operations ' insurance , especially since the participants ' liability had not been established ; the unwillingness of commodity traders to record their transactions in a central registry subject to inspection by competitors and tax authorities ; the reticence by the ultimate buyers of spot crude oil to acquire bills of lading from an entity designed to service intermediaries and speculators ; and the banks ' discomfort with the exclusive control of the registry business by one of their competitors .
29 It has been suggested that this stone was brought from the Cultoon circle but there is no evidence that it was ever there and no good reason has been given for making such a move .
30 Most of the figures that have been given for the projected growth of the presentation graphics market in this country , and Europe as a whole , seem to be based on the assumption that there will be a significant change towards the use of 35mm slides .
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