Example sentences of "be give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this ; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial , so this included Tosspot . |
| 2 | Parents will be given simple , straightforward details of the inspectors ' findings . |
| 3 | It was agreed that he , RW , and CW should be given advance warning of the arrival of new research workers , in order to assess requirements for space , laboratory facilities , library and computing services . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale , a small and humble task can sometimes be given ritual status by attending to it with real attention and care . |
| 5 | By that I mean that , though they do not carry intrinsic labels to discriminate them , yet they can be given extrinsic labels for that purpose . |
| 6 | They should be taken seriously and be given due consideration . |
| 7 | All bids , from whatever source , will be given due consideration . |
| 8 | My region welcomes this and hopes this motion will be given due consideration . |
| 9 | When the Association plans to revise the programmes students will , through centres offering the programmes , be given due warning . |
| 10 | This is a complex formulation which in practice can be given various emphases . |
| 11 | The first aiders will be given alternative premises . |
| 12 | On 29 June 1559 , Henri wrote to the pope , that notorious bombast Paul IV , about ‘ the incredible disaster which has since befallen the realm of Scotland to our extreme regret , disgust and displeasure ’ ; the letter stated his ‘ confidence in God who is so signally offended at this wretched plague of ruffians ’ , but God was to be given worldly assistance in the shape of ‘ a large and sufficient force of French soldiers , infantry and cavalry ’ . |
| 13 | A variable capacitor consists of two sets of n interconnected semicircular conducting plates which can be given mutual rotation as shown in Fig. 2.46 . |
| 14 | You will be asked to design experiments and be given other problems to solve . |
| 15 | It was also arranged that he would be given accurate intelligence by radio on a regular basis . |
| 16 | Furthermore , those with the most resources , the most bargaining counters , will be at an advantage ; the organized , the wealthy and the privileged are likely to gain while the problems of the unorganized , the poor and the underprivileged may be given insufficient attention . |
| 17 | A PETITION calling for motorists to be given round-the-clock access to a town 's main shopping street is being well supported by the public , say traders . |
| 18 | Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child . |
| 19 | EMPLOYERS ARE to be given new powers to isolate union members who take part in unofficial strikes through selective sackings . |
| 20 | Local authorities will be given new powers over a second tier of less heavily polluting processes , which will only be allowed to take place after councils have imposed stringent operating conditions . |
| 21 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 22 | As in Pearl , a stock phrase or cliché can at any moment be given new point . |
| 23 | Almond suggests a number of ways in which the ancient idea that the two sexes have — or should have — different moral outlooks can be given new life in the context of modern feminism . |
| 24 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 25 | A senator who cultivates his mayors will be given useful things to do and will be re-elected . |
| 26 | But I 'd much rather be given useful relevant information like where I am . ’ |
| 27 | Finally we would like to reassure members of the sporting public that injuries treated in NHS hospitals will be given effective treatments just as footballers received in hospital departments Jacqui Moore MCSP , Hiliary Adams MCSP , A Wallace , MCSP BSc Hon. |
| 28 | It also suggests the possibility that demonstrators fall foul of the law in the magistrates ' court in ways which may never afterwards be given thoughtful re-examination at a more senior judicial level . |
| 29 | He therefore proposed that they should be given increased representation in Legislative Councils and that they should be admitted to the administrative services . |
| 30 | The defendant who had not " examined " , in the sense of personally inspected , the offending items might nonetheless be given reasonable cause to suspect obscenity by clandestine or unorthodox behaviour on the part of his supplier . |