Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] give [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 This was a well researched and market estimated project : for the reasons given above it ended with the sale of EMI to another company .
2 But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management .
3 An increased capacity to store past events in memory , together with the responses given to them and their results .
4 I understand from the figures given to me by British Coal that more than 1,600 men are employed in private mines .
5 The comparatively limited publicity that this debate has already generated has meant that a number of other cases have been brought to me , and the factors in all those are very similar to the ones given to me by PAT .
6 Those slightly better off could organize an annual requiem for past guild members at All Souls ' — 2 November — or on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of their main benefactor , and it was quite in order for bequests to be made to the guild in addition to the contributions given to it during one 's lifetime .
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