Example sentences of "[noun prp] be given [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitchum , Ford and Lila were given bail at a thousand dollars each and a hearing was scheduled for the following week . |
| 2 | In November , Edward was given sight of a letter from Haushofer — he signed it ‘ A ’ — written to the duke . |
| 3 | Boats are readily available to visitors , from various mooring bays around Harray , but my favourite venue is the Merkister Hotel , at the north-east end of the loch ; a true fishing hotel , to which anglers return , year after year ; where fishermen new to Orkney are given expert advice and endless encouragement . |
| 4 | It was claimed that there were further threats and assaults and Grugel was given money . |
| 5 | Yet , long after the North East had lost its separate region , on 4 April 1988 East Anglia was given independence . |
| 6 | UNESCO was given responsibility for organizing international sponsored Literacy Year ( 1990 ) and sponsored with UNICEF , the UNDP and the World Bank , the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien , Thailand , on March 5-9 [ see also p. 37335 ] . |
| 7 | Once more Reg Pybus was given command and many believed he had inherited one of the great Whaddon sides . |
| 8 | Andrew Beattie was given parole from 7th to 10th August . |
| 9 | The pictures were screened by ITN after their reporter Penny Marshall was given access by the Serbs to the camps near the north Bosnian town of Prijedor . |
| 10 | Kevin Wilson was given space by Clarke 's precise header to beat Strakosha with a low cross shot . |
| 11 | Abu Mohammed Talb , a suspect in the Lockerbie bombing , and Marten Imandi were given life sentences in Sweden . |
| 12 | The doctors conclude in the British Medical Journal that there would be little benefit if all women in the UK were given zinc supplements during pregnancy . |
| 13 | Some 1,100 of BCCI 's 1,260 staff in the UK were given redundancy notices ; 80 per cent of the bank 's 480 employees in the UAE had been made redundant on Oct. 2 . |
| 14 | William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry were given airline packs of colouring books and puzzles but chose to concentrate on a new computer game . |
| 15 | Two years later , Brooke was given responsibility for the Kent coast from Dover to Whitstable , with the task of preventing any communication between the French and their English sympathizers . |
| 16 | Supported by his head of department , Mobbs was given relief from teaching duties to work on course development . |
| 17 | The 19th session of the Islamic Conference Organization ( ICO ) Foreign Ministers ' conference met in Cairo on Aug. 1-5 under the chairmanship of the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , and was attended by representatives from all member states ( now 44 , since the unification of Yemen in May 1990 ; Mozambique was given observer status on Aug. 1 , joining Nigeria and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ) . |
| 18 | Two civilians found guilty of instigating protests in Dili were given prison sentences of six years and 15 years on June 15 and June 22 respectively . |
| 19 | Brian was given analgesia and occasional sedation at night . |
| 20 | JINXED Ian Loughran was given permission to change the number of his house yesterday in the hope of changing his luck . |
| 21 | In December 1917 Malcolm was given command ( as major-general ) of the 66th division , which was badly mauled in the great German offensive launched by Erich Ludendorff in March 1918 . |
| 22 | The GTP was given land grants only for its line from Lake Superior Junction on the main line to Fort William on Lake Superior ( a distance of 188 miles ) . |
| 23 | McCaulay , Mann , O'Donovan and McClelland were each placed on probation for 12 months ; Donaghy was given probation for two years and Dempsey was ordered to carry out 200 hours community service . |
| 24 | In the event , the Berwickers were given hope and encouragement sooner than they could have anticipated . |
| 25 | South Londoner Thomas , 27 , was gunned down on his doorstep just days after the FBI were given information leading to the recovery of £290m worth of bond certificates , snatched from a messenger in the City . |
| 26 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 27 | It follows , I believe , that if the GMC was given responsibility in this area it would have to exercise it comprehensively , in an enormous number of areas of both conventional and unorthodox practice . |
| 28 | Latest word has NCR being given time to re-position its OLTP strategy for interoperability and compatibility before a statement is released . |
| 29 | Newcastle are given all-clear |
| 30 | Rootham and McCabe were given community service orders for 180 hours . |