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Example sentences of "[noun] give [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras .
2	I have just done her a return kindness by getting invitations for her and her mother , to the Alumnus of the Year award given by Royal Bank as holder of Chair of European Governmental Studies .
3	But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as :
4	Reasons given for transnational participation are : continuity of research to overcome shortfalls of younger scientists entering the field in view of the imminent retirement of many senior scientists and to provide advanced training .
5	The discussion thus far has focused on the reasons given in legal doctrine to support the legal model 's centralization of the power to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company .
6	By the outbreak of World War II rather more was being made of the ceremony itself , but it would appear that the reasons given by working class couples heading for the altar were still somewhat pragmatic .
7	The opportunity to maintain their freedom of referral was one of the commonest reasons given by general practitioners for joining the fundholding scheme .
8	We also use the survey to examine the significance of small establishments as employers of temporary workers and the regional distribution of temporary employment , to give the personal characteristics of temporary workers — concentrating on their sex , age and marital status — and to discuss some of the reasons given by temporary workers for working on this basis .
9	My Lords , for the reasons given by noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , I , too , agree that the appeal must be allowed .
10	It was the discovery by Dr Alice Stewart , for example , that the radiation from hospital X-rays given to pregnant women could increase the risk of leukaemia in their babies which contributed to severe limits being placed on their usage .
11	Press releases given in technical language , with a large number of figures and percentages , were not easy to listen to and understand when broadcast .
12	Support given to young people from Lothian for national arts courses
13	Groups are capable of great creativity , as in language and folksong , and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers .
14	Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising .
15	Todd linked family structure to ideology and politics , and indeed sought to account both for types of regime and for the electoral support given to particular types of party by an area 's dominant family structure .
16	Lothian Region support given to National Festivals & Companies , leading to workshops and visits to schools by major companies
17	The breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 opened the doors to a series of revolutions in Central and East European countries which , from November 1989 to January 1990 , saw the toppling of Communist dictatorships , and their gradual replacement by governments relying in most cases on popular support given at free elections .
18	In the London case at least , this recovery can no doubt be attributed in part to the strength of its economy , the support given by central government to the Docklands redevelopment and other schemes , and the associated attraction of young professionals back to the more central parts of the city .
19	Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed .
20	Particularly in a large organization , reclassification can be a major exercise , although it can be facilitated by the support given by computer-based catalogue records .
21	It would be a tragedy if the use of violence or any confusion introduced by irregular elements on the picket lines were to divide and deflect the support given by responsible trade unionists all over the country aimed at achieving an early and a peaceful solution to this problem .
22	Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
23	Mannheim compared the meanings given to social being to the givenness of language and it is difficult to imagine the individual ‘ affiliating ’ to their first language , exactly because of its givenness to the individual as part of social being .
24	We report here 2 cases of opportunistic infections occurring after 3 months and 6 weeks , respectively , of IFN given for chronic viral hepatitis C in intravenous drug using seropositive patients .
25	Indirectly , the titles given to various types imply that distinctions were considered possible .
26	Previously , the ages given by kimberlite-derived zircons ( mostly megacrysts ) have been assumed to be reset to the time of eruption and cooling .
27	He immediately cuts himself off from those ambitious city men who try ‘ to win the palm , the oak , or bays , ’ emblematic of the rewards given for artistic , political and military achievement .
28	Although the accident estimate could logically be independent of the actual exemplar of the junction that a subject was shown it is clear that it is in fact strongly related to the risk rating given to particular exemplars .
29	They are all spending pledges given by Labour Members .
30	The maximum reduction given per full fare paying passenger under this section is £30 irrespective of the number and timing of changes made to a booking .