Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I can assure you that any information given during the interview will be treated in the strictest confidence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The speed of the upswing was largely the result of the scale of monetary and fiscal stimulus given to the system as a whole . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They were feverishly engaged in anti-Francoist conspiring , partly because many monarchists were opposed to Franco 's gestures of support for Hitler and Mussolini , and partly because they resented the national and international prominence given to Serrano and the Falangists Serrano had chosen as his closest personal and professional associates . |
| 22 | Hayward was gregarious , a great attender of dinners and parties , but he could also be a caustic and gossipy creature given to telling salacious stories . |
| 23 | This is not to deny the immense amount of valuable warm support and practical help given to old people by social work assistants . |
| 24 | Whilst most parents ' groups continued to focus on mutual support , these examples of service provision represent a considerable net addition to the facilities available in the County ; they also reflect the powerful moral and practical support given to the development of parents ' groups by the CMHTs . |
| 25 | Specific and general advice given to patients , in the context of the presenting complaint , is often more readily accepted by them . |
| 26 | UITF9 requires adjustments to be made where the distortions caused by the hyper-inflation are such as to affect the true and fair view given by those accounts . |
| 27 | Section 45(7) allows the court to take into account any statement in any report made to the court and any evidence given during the hearing of an application for , or relating to , an emergency protection order . |
| 28 | ‘ ( 2 ) Determinations of complaints under recognised schemes shall be made by reference to what is , in the adjudicator 's opinion , fair in all the circumstances of the case and any direction given to a building society or associated body by an adjudicator may ( if the complainant accepts the determination ) require it or the complainant not to exercise or require the performance of any of the contractual or other obligations or rights subsisting between them . |
| 29 | In 1203–4 , 1205 and 1242 these concessions were rewarded by the financial and military support given to the Plantagenets by Bordeaux and other towns against both Castilian and French attacks on the duchy . |
| 30 | The political and military support given by Egypt to the United States-led coalition in the Gulf war was regarded as an important factor in the Paris Club debt relief , which supplemented write-offs of Egyptian debt by the United States and the Gulf Co-operation Council countries in October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |