Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was enough window space or in-store display given to the product to support the advertisement ? |
| 2 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Weaknesses relating to board control included : an over-dominant and over-ambitious chief executive or executive team ; inadequate or biased information given to the board , infrequent board meetings or inadequate recording of board decisions ; imbalanced boards in terms of skills ; strategies based on short-term share price rather than solidity of real earnings ; and inadequate systems of financial control . |
| 4 | She would instantly see that a plastic spoon proffered in open-hearted supplication and tender humility was more beautiful by far than any thorny rose or second-hand diamond given to her with a leer of anticipation . |
| 5 | Those that have caused concern include the balance of the distribution of the surplus between employer and members , unexplained anomalies in allocation between different member categories , lack of independent advice to trustees or consultation with members , inaccurate or misleading information given to members , and the apparent failure of trustees to consider all options available to use the surplus . |
| 6 | The Pre-Raphaelites and their circle depicted jewellery in their paintings and also designed or purchased pieces to give to their relatives and friends . |
| 7 | Financial or other support given to sufferers from addictive disease by well-meaning family or friends will therefore simply tend to enable more drug or alcohol consumption . |
| 8 | Accordingly , it would be good practice to ensure that the customer 's attention is drawn to the salient points of any agreement or written document given to him . |
| 9 | Yesterday , after the Recorder of London , Judge Lawrence Verney , ruled that some evidence given by one of two convicted murderers who were the main prosecution witnesses was unreliable , Timothy Langdale , QC , prosecuting , said : ‘ In the circumstances , it would be improper to proceed . ’ |
| 10 | The work of Cabinet committees should not be disclosed , nor official advice given to ministers , nor material about inter-departmental exchanges of matters of policy , nor information about the level at which decisions were made . |
| 11 | Their inadequacy is often disguised by the tax incentives that many governments give to institutional saving . |
| 12 | The IBA must ensure that a sufficient amount of time in the programmes is given to news and news features and that all news given in the programmes … is presented with due accuracy and impartiality . |
| 13 | It must not be forgotten that independent parts given to the feebler instruments are not actually heard in the tutti , but may play havoc with the clarity of design which should be the orchestrator 's first aim . |
| 14 | However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence . |
| 15 | From the compliance point of view , it is important to ensure that any warnings given to customers under this Rule are appropriately recorded either in writing or , at least , through the routine taping of dealers ' telephone lines . |
| 16 | I can assure you that any information given during the interview will be treated in the strictest confidence . |
| 17 | It should be remembered in this context that wards of court placed in care prior to 14 October 1991 ceased to be wards on that date unless proceedings were still pending although any directions given by the wardship court remain effective until varied or discharged . |
| 18 | 6.6 Insofar as this Agreement is less restrictive or onerous on the recipient Party in respect of the disclosure or use of any particular information than any undertaking given by the recipient Party prior to the execution of this Agreement in respect of the same information , such information shall to such extent be deemed to have been superseded by this Agreement . |
| 19 | The new government set out in 1649 to establish its position with a degree of success which must have surprised everyone who knew about its problems and had not realized the great energy that religious faith gave to its leaders . |
| 20 | Apart from the impetus that new railways gave to British industrial strength , railway-building abroad was the means for an expansion of British capital overseas , through loans to railway companies and states , and the export of British capitalism itself in the establishment of British enterprises and railway companies abroad . |
| 21 | They made their complaint but when Mrs Dyson timidly approached Miss Meers she was so abusive that both girls gave in their notice to leave the following week . |
| 22 | That most schools give at least lip-service to the importance of this fact is obvious in the development of courses variously titled " study skills " , " library skills " , " information skills " and so on . |
| 23 | It is well established that hypoxia occurs during endoscopic procedures and that oxygen given during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP ) will significantly diminish the degree of oxygen desaturation . |
| 24 | THE Government yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing more confidential correspondence between Lord Young and British Aerospace , revealing new details of secret tax breaks and private concessions given by ministers over the Rover deal . |
| 25 | Elizabeth is very grateful for the support and technical help given by Johnson Matthey and is sure the interest of pupils in chemistry will be stimulated . |
| 26 | That meaning , in our judgment , is not to be arrived at by reference to the more limited and technical interpretations given to these words in the context of the law of master and servant , as in Mersey Docks and Harbour Board v. Coggins & Griffith ( Liverpool ) Ltd. [ 1947 ] A.C. 1 , or in the context of pensions and National Insurance law , as in Ready Mixed Concrete ( South East ) Ltd. v. Minister of Pensions and National Insurance [ 1968 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 27 | There could have been greater consultation with both nursery nurse and life preparation students and due consideration given to the fact that completed craft projects are an important part of a nursery nurse 's final assessment . |
| 28 | The speed of the upswing was largely the result of the scale of monetary and fiscal stimulus given to the system as a whole . |
| 29 | As a primary intervention , I would aim to direct conversations so that preparation for these changes could be made and some consideration given to the future , whatever that would entail . |
| 30 | If we are to keep the whole pantomime , the grounds for the awarding of honours need re-examining , and some thought given to how to make the business more representative of a broader spectrum of achievement . |