Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] give [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is unclear to us why the interview of 600 mothers in 1989 would be a more reliable way to measure drug pressure than the total sales per annum of drug suppliers in 1991 and 1992 or the treatments given at an outpatient clinic .
2 Where a rating authority had a statutory power , but no duty , to refund rates overpaid by mistake , the House of Lords granted judicial review and ordered repayment where the reasons given by the authority for its refusal to repay were held not to be valid .
3 They attack the status quo by pointing out that the reasons given for denying rights to children are bad reasons , and then explicitly or implicitly deny them duties for no reason at all .
4 There is no doubt that the reasons given by both players made very good practical sense .
5 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 .
6 What you must recognize is that the answers given to the questions will affect the outcome of the research .
7 Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital .
8 We have also established that the instructions given to registrars would have meant that deaths of children classified as unoccupied are almost certainly associated with economically inactive lone mothers .
9 Well we were led to believe that the concessions given to company cars would go , or would go in part in the White Paper , and we were led to believe that they would er make a decision that would say that the gas-guzzling , the higher expenditure cars would be penalized in terms of vehicle excise licence , road tax , compared to the small ones , and yet they 've gone back even from that .
10 ‘ Family Solidarity is writing to Telecom and to the Minister for Communications asking that the matter be looked into and that the numbers given by these people be immediately disconnected . ’
11 For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors .
12 During the rituals for initiation into each successive age-set the ‘ true ’ meanings of certain sacred objects are revealed and it transpires that the interpretations given at the previous stage were false or partial .
13 Notice that , while the theory of this section has been developed in terms of small signals and , the fact that the input and output signals are related through the linear feedback components Z 1 and Z 2 means that the gains given by equations ( 10.40 ) and ( 10.41 ) apply to any magnitude of signal that does not swing beyond the fixed potentials of the bias supply .
14 It may also be noted that the solutions given in the notation of previous sections by ( 10.69 ) where c 1 and c 2 are given by ( 10.67 ) , similarly do not contain curvature singularities on the hypersurface provided the constants d i and a are constrained by ( 10.66 ) and ( 10.68 ) .
15 Much of this information is offered in the form that the authors give to their clients in written handouts .
16 One advantage of the fact that it can often produce little contextual information in comparison with this massive material product is that the labels given to this material are often relatively arbitrary .
17 A new study by UN economists claims that farming contributes one-XXXX third less to national economies than the totals given by official figures , which do not take account of environmental losses such as soil erosion .
18 Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support .
19 However , although the averages given in the last column of Table 4 are of some value they do not convey the reality of referral and investigative work .
20 And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ .
21 In fact , if the answers given by 40 per cent of women quizzed for a new survey are anything to go by , the EC president might as well Jacques it in …
22 If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only .
23 If the instructions given by Mr. Tucker to the Burnham sub-branch had been carried out , my answer would have been otherwise .
24 There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct .
25 The final two columns show the resulting metronome equivalents and the time-words given in the Cauvin MS ( indicated ) and the 1729 edition ( indicated ) .
26 However , from the transitions shown graphically in figure 3 ( right hand side ) and the energies given in the lower half of table 1 , we can see that these transitions are not notably more difficult than those of the junctions already discussed .
27 The military strategy devised to implement successive governments ' Defence policies reflects both long-term national grand strategy and the directions given by the government of the day , and is largely the responsibility of the Chiefs of Staff .
28 It was decided that this superb item should be auctioned and the proceeds given towards raffle prizes at the Reunion .
29 Rural listeners sometimes considered the questions and the answers given to them to be improper :
30 I have already referred to the findings and the reasons given by the justices at the time that they announced their decision on 28 January 1992 .
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