Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Michael Morris , the deputy speaker , surprised the House when he agreed to a demand from Mr Robertson for an emergency debate on the conflicting legal advice given by Tristan Garel-Jones , the foreign office minister on 20 January and Douglas Hurd , the Foreign Secretary , last week . |
| 2 | In advancing legal arguments and in taking direct political action those active in the peace movement can be reinforced by the knowledge that the hesitant political support given by others to the policies of nuclear deterrence is underpinned only by the belief that their leaders genuinely desire peace and disarmament . |
| 3 | The little blue handbook given to newly-appointed lieutenants explains that their prime responsibility is to ‘ uphold the dignity of the Crown ’ . |
| 4 | A reflection of clerical involvement in the world of the courts may be glimpsed in the large stained-glass window given to York Minster by Master Peter de Dene , king 's clerk , probably between 1307 and 1310 ( see plate 2.6 ) . |
| 5 | In the example given , " original variance " records the difference between original budget cost and the estimated final cost given in the last report ; " current variance " records the difference between the latest approved budget and current estimated final cost . |
| 6 | The most we can claim is that his social situation and his physical deterioration induces in him a condition that approximates the classical clinical picture given of schizophrenia . |
| 7 | George Soros ' donation — thought to be the biggest private gift given to a humanitarian cause — will go to aid agencies in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | At root , the educational changes with which we are engaged are fuelled by rapidly changing socio-economic patterns , and the particular political drive given to these at the moment is of much less importance ( in anything other than the short term ) than we may often feel to be the case . |
| 9 | The proposals were attacked as being too weak and vague , with only the minimum legal protection given to sites . |
| 10 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |