Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he told them he could not serve two masters and as he had , by then , proved himself to Tiller , he was given complete financial control . |
| 2 | Some European governments which had not been consulted expressed considerable concern over the European security implications of a united Germany . |
| 3 | Many of those consulted expressed considerable interest in the issue of grading students ' performance . |
| 4 | In the security arena , Artisoft has extended privilege assignment within an Access Control List group down to particular files on servers , so each member of an Access Control group can be assigned specific additional rights above those of the group as a whole . |
| 5 | The object is to organize the internal structure of the company so that , whilst the directors as the managers of the company are given ample discretionary power to operate the company effectively , they are nevertheless obliged to exercise that power in the interests of the owners of the company . |
| 6 | Several other Scottish education authorities — including Dumfries and Galloway , Highland , Tayside and Strathclyde — have already developed strong anti-smoking policies , though none is thought to have rejected the case for smokers ' areas . |
| 7 | Given low absolute levels of productivity , Britain 's accelerated productivity growth over the post-war period might well appear as something of an easy success . |
| 8 | Philip Coles , 37 , of Clackmannanshire , had pled guilty last month to conspiracy to obtain money by deception . |
| 9 | Although this exclusion would not be valid if it was not reasonable , it is likely that in such a contract on which the acquirer had received professional legal advice the provision would be upheld as being reasonable . |
| 10 | ARC 's application has aroused strong local opposition in a neighbourhood already devastated by quarrying , so it is important that there should be no confusion as to the venue of the inquiry . |
| 11 | 16.2 The Proprietor agrees to indemnify the Publisher against loss injury or damage ( including all legal costs and expenses and any compensation costs and disbursements paid by the Publisher to compromise or settle any claim ) occasioned to the Publisher by any claim action or threatened proceedings arising out of a breach or violation of the above warranty provided that the Publisher shall have given prompt written notice to the Proprietor of any such claim , action or threatened proceedings upon its becoming aware of same and provided the Publisher shall have given the Proprietor the option , at the Proprietor 's discretion , to defend such claim , action or threatened proceedings himself . |
| 12 | But having given Labour false hopes , will the media now make sure that Labour suffers from false despair ? |
| 13 | He hoped that the government would set an example to the nation by inaugurating a period of change , but he did not believe that the estates of the realm should be given extensive political rights or that the power of the tsar should be dramatically reduced . |
| 14 | The 27 inoperable or irresectable patients were given palliative non-surgical treatment . |
| 15 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 16 | The principal target of the order , however , appeared to be the territorial defence forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which had been placed under the control of the republican leaderships by legislation passed in Slovenia in October 1990 [ see p. 37790 ] and in Croatia on Nov. 8 , and a newly formed Croatian paramilitary police reserve known as the specijalci . |
| 17 | She was given lesser concurrent terms on these counts . |
| 18 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |
| 19 | But they would help to reduce still further that small minority of cases where a customer is turned away when he would not have been , given careful objective reflection ; or where the customer mistakenly feels aggrieved at what is in truth a fair decision . |
| 20 | Even in France soldiers often received high diplomatic appointments , especially under a regime in which military influences were strong , such as the Second Empire . |
| 21 | Given diminishing marginal utility of income , more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period . |
| 22 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
| 23 | Whale ( 1977 , p. 80 ) has justified unregulated commercial control of the press by arguing that ‘ a newspaper controlled by a commercial group writes inhibitedly about a handful of concerns at most ; a paper owned by the state , the effective alternative , would be guarded in its outlook on whole areas of the national life ’ . |
| 24 | Being sent to your room by your parents , being kept in after school , being given mindless repetitive tasks to do — are all deliberate withdrawals of stimulation . |
| 25 | In 1918 the Western Allies had neither accepted nor totally crushed German economic competition : instead they had pushed it back in on itself like some kind of demonic and lethal jack-in-the-box . |
| 26 | Parasitic helminths which invade the body cavities and tissues of man and animals have developed specialised biochemical adaptations appropriate to this lifestyle . |
| 27 | The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has strongly criticized British Nuclear Fuels over an incident at the newly-opened Sellafield vitrification plant in September last year , when access doors were left open , exposing workers to risks of severe radiation . |
| 28 | We felt that the use of median survival as an outcome was unsuitable in this meta-analysis since this effect-size approach , although suitable for quantitative outcomes , would not have given reliable pooled results . |
| 29 | Former West Ham striker Frank McAvennie , 33 , has joined Scottish Premier Division Partick Thistle on a two-month contract . |
| 30 | The family was willing in principle to loan or sell some of the most important contents of the staterooms to a hotel , but only on condition that they were given proper conservation safeguards . |