Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suggested that some polytechnics and colleges should be given complete autonomy by the Secretary of State to validate their own courses ; others should be allowed more limited autonomy , in specific areas ; while in yet others external validation should remain . |
| 2 | He was given folic acid by mouth . |
| 3 | This natural harmony of interests , it seemed , could be most easily given political expression by an enlightened government , which must be the work of an enlightened monarch . |
| 4 | Law was a highly efficient , rather unimaginative , detailed administrator , given political force by a strong sense of partisan combativeness . |
| 5 | This frequent contact with families is given strong emphasis by the prison authorities , who see it as one of the key elements both of encouraging prisoners to participate and in preparing them for successful reintegration . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister 's decision to take legal action was given strong support by other Socialists , but criticized by some leading politicians of the centre-right , who argued that it might constitute a restriction of freedom of speech . |
| 7 | The regime was given strong backing by the Soviet Union but failed to gain widespread popular support . |
| 8 | The dolphin received further protection in 1975 , when the District Magistrate of Sukkur made trapping or killing of dolphins illegal under a Criminal Procedure Code , which was given extensive publicity by drums , through radio and newspapers , and by placing posters in key locations . |
| 9 | Over the past year so much time and energy has been devoted to considering the implications of the new audit regulatory regime that investment business has been given scant attention by commentators and the profession alike . |
| 10 | When you are appointed a chairman of a nationalised industry , you are given clear objectives by your Secretary of State , and you have to see that your immediate colleagues and indeed the whole team are aware of , and are striving to achieve , these objectives . |
| 11 | Steven mentioned the constraints that the E M U may impose on the economy , but the biggest single issue is the scandalous position in which this government has placed British workers by opting out of a Social Chapter and thus denying the right and protection at work which are granted , taken for granted as minimum basic conditions in all other member states . |
| 12 | THIRD SCHEDULE Rights reserved These may be extremely disruptive and , as such , may need to be given careful consideration by the tenant . |
| 13 | Some nests are given waterproof roofs by using particularly wide strips of leaves for the top half . |
| 14 | Rules governing investor protection seek to ensure that the investing public is not subjected to fraudulent or manipulative practices and , moreover , that they are given sound advice by competent professionals . |
| 15 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 16 | It is therefore entirely proper for the directors to be given proper assurances by Government about the funding of a project undertaken on behalf of Government . |
| 17 | Not directed by Sinn Fein but given public support by members of that party in the face of the atrocities they commit on men , women and children . |
| 18 | In 1695 the licensing system was abolished , and in the following century the rule against prior restraint was given definitive shape by the venerated legal writer , Blackstone : " The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints on publications , and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published . |
| 19 | Others allege that the elite theorists justified direct action by the masses outside parliamentary or legal channels , and encouraged an irrational doctrine of total subordination to the leader , two prominent components of fascist ideology ( Mannheim , 1936 , p. 119 ) . |
| 20 | However , research into this area of hydrocarbon generation was given fresh impetus by the first ‘ energy crisis ’ in 1973 which saw gas assume a more important role as a primary energy source . |
| 21 | Talks begun in Kuwait in late October 1989 between Bulgaria and Turkey centring on the issue of the exodus of Bulgaria 's Turkish minority were given fresh impetus by the fall of the Zhivkov regime and the consequent repudiation of its ethnic policies . |
| 22 | Numerous studies have found that patients who are given adequate information by doctors , nurses and midwives are both more satisfied with their medical care and more compliant . |
| 23 | To be fair , the very earliest examples of misrepresentation were considered normal practice by the artists themselves . |
| 24 | Her 1929–30 report on the work of the scheme reflected continuing pleasure in her teaching role when describing her experience of a jointly organised One-Year course by the WEA branch and the local Cooperative education committee in Bedford : |
| 25 | It wo n't hurt her a bit if another dog growls at her , as it will make her realise she is not considered top dog by them . |
| 26 | Progressive and New Age music are both considered serious music by their advocates , surely these deserve inclusion in a new-look CD REVIEW ? |
| 27 | ‘ I think that goddamn racket means we should all be dead , ’ he announced cheerfully , then carried on with an involved story of how he had once won undying glory by intercepting a pass against the Philadelphia Faggots . |
| 28 | Moreover , Calvin Coolidge , the Vice-President who took over from Harding , was a New Englander of puritanical honesty who had won national fame by saying , when the Boston police went on strike in 1919 , that there was " no right to strike against the public safety by anybody , anywhere , any time " . |
| 29 | A permanent state of booze-induced stupor was considered good form by these people and it was not long before ‘ to be altogethery ’ meant absolutely blotto . |
| 30 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |