Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] is give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will welcome the support that is given for that process from the centre . |
| 2 | The usual test that is given for this is the Snellen chart for visual acuity , which is well known to anyone who has had a routine medical examination . |
| 3 | The cornetto , made of wood , with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and finger-holes , is not the most docile of instrumental pets ; to play it fluently , in tune and with good ( ‘ sensuous ’ , as Benvenuto Cellini described it ) tone , is a skill that is given to few — it does not seem all that long ago when even competent cornettists were almost as rare as hen 's teeth . |
| 4 | Being sick can bring with it a degree of sympathy and attention that is greatly valued by more isolated individuals , and they may believe that if their health improves they will lose out on the time and attention that is given to them on the basis of their illness . |
| 5 | Explain the allegorical meaning that is given in the Gospels . |
| 6 | If a profit is equivalent to surplus labour , then the capitalist , in keeping a larger share of the surplus than is given to the workers , is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from them , although what amounts to theft is written into an agreement and therefore not recognised as such . |
| 7 | The inositol phosphate formation was determined at 0.1μM free Ca 2+ and 0.9mM sodium deoxycholate and is given in per cent of the maximal activity determined at 10μM free Ca 2+ and 3.4mM sodium deoxycholate . |
| 8 | The married couple 's allowance , which is currently £1,720 , was introduced in 1990/91 with the advent of independent taxation and is given to married men living with their wives . |
| 9 | It is not , er this evidence does not go to a matter of law er er and the duty but it matter of practice and my Lord what this case is dealing with is about what if , what is or should be the practice of a solicitors engaged in commercial conveyancing as to the advice that is given to clients and er my Lord the er commercial conveyancing is obviously a matter which particularly concerns . |
| 10 | It means making the development of collaboration a priority , and giving to it the same careful thought and planning as is given to other areas of children 's development . |
| 11 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 12 | These will have much in common with the kind of training that is given to therapists working in other settings , but should also include instruction relevant to the problems presented by attempted suicide patients . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend take the opportunity of the review of the Territorial Army to commend to the Confederation of British Industry , to the Institute of Directors and to others the training that is given by the TA so that greater public recognition can be given to it ? |
| 14 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 15 | The little information that is given on the performance of mature students is not very useful . |
| 16 | Power , then , in pluralist analyses , is not a simple property that is given to one group and denied to another on the basis of economic or social position . |
| 17 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 18 | I support the recommendation — I hope that the Under-Secretary will do likewise — that the extra allowance that is given in the Greater London area should be extended to out-of-area boroughs that have similar high charges . |
| 19 | Perhaps predictably , many of these problems are concerned with the label that is given to a subject in an alphabetical index . |