Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [art] [noun] give " in BNC.

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1 The extent of circulation and the prominence given to defamatory remarks are factors which will influence the final award : a libel in the national press comes more expensive than the same libel in a small local newspaper .
2 Showbusiness and sporting stars had donated items for the auction and a sweatshirt given by Ian Botham which he had worn during his charity walk from Aberdeen to Ipswich fetched £33 .
3 At an Open Evening in Stranraer , attended by various types of Keep-fit groups , the programme included a Medau demonstration and a class given by Valerie Archibald .
4 Their Lordships accepted that there was no general duty to provide reasons but attached a caveat , that if the preponderance of reasons pointed in favour of taking action and the Minister gave no explanation for taking a different course , the court would infer that he had no good reason and that he was misusing his authority .
5 Peer-group regulation of adolescent courtship can substantially affect the patterns of sexuality , keeping the illegitimacy rates low , for instance , regulating the timing of marriage and the importance given to celibacy and restraint .
6 His loss was felt sharply , not only at School , but also in the town , and many tributes were paid to his work and a lifetime given to public service .
7 A Saudi scholar described to Jean Sasson the main tenets of Islamic Law and the punishment given to offenders .
8 They went into the hut and the Bārakotes gave them each a bowl of buffalo milk .
9 Bleak scenarios of the " economic burden " that elderly people imposed on the working population underlay the 1988 Social Security Act and the impetus given to private pensions .
10 The clearer the disclosure and the description given of the effect of the loss of protections , the more likely it is that SFA would regard the customer as having sufficient understanding to qualify ; and ( 3 ) The customer must normally give consent in writing after getting a proper opportunity to consider the warning .
11 There are specific difficulties affecting the primary sector such as the reduced ability to release teaching staff , the demands of National Curriculum implementation , a perceived lack of relevance and the priority given to the secondary sector by many companies .
12 Both this case , and Gomba Holdings UK Ltd v Minories Finance Ltd , which dealt with the taxation of a receiver 's costs ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 86 ) , indicate that the days of undisputed acceptance of insolvency practitioners ' fees are over — perhaps a natural reaction , given the recession and the priority given to the payment of such fees in an insolvency .
13 Eventually Balvinder handed over a pocketful of change and the healer gave him a small pot of white powder .
14 Nevertheless , an instinct for splendour and the ability to give their kingdom importance were actually still far more fundamental aspects of Renaissance monarchy than the colder , more cautious approach of a Henry VII or Elizabeth , or even a Philip II ; and in these terms , the achievement of the Scottish monarchy can indeed be described as remarkable .
15 When I say ‘ Where is the pain ? ’ and questions like this , this could be answered just by asking the patient , but there are erm various kinds of tests — one lovely test called Murphy 's test , for example — which have to be carried out by a qualified doctor or a qualified medical person , so it 's not a question of must being hooked onto the computer and the computer giving the answer .
16 She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards .
17 It sets one hesitating between general admiration and the attempt to give point to frontality or some such term : anything to obtain leverage on a narrative mode which sweeps up event and idea , fictional past and stream-ofconsciousness present , into a single impulse of this immediacy and power .
18 D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ .
19 The buyers paid by cheque and the sellers gave the buyers a delivery order which the buyers endorsed and transferred to a sub-purchaser .
20 Scientific rationality for the Frankfurt School involves the domination of experience by purporting to describe and explain it whereas critical theory engages in the dialectic between lived experience and the categories given to describe it .
21 I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci .
22 Explaining his decision , he originally felt that he ‘ would be very unlikely ever to have available the full weight of a team and a manufacturer to give me what should be a reasonable opportunity ( to win the championship ) . ’
23 Many kinds of dispute arising out of industrial relations could find their way to the NIRC which , because of its status as a superior court of record and the powers given it by statute , was able to order the payment of fines and , if that or any other of its orders was disregarded , could imprison for contempt .
24 But I was thrown into this Guild secretary business and er you ca n't do both , not when you 're trying to erm a family and then by then my son was away and erm I went got a job and the Co-op gave me a job .
25 Whilst they achieved no reaction at all from the cereal taken from outside the phenomena , that from inside the circle and the stone gave three clockwise gyrations on the pendulum followed by three anti-clockwise .
26 He heaved his shoulder against the trap and the nails gave instantly .
27 But I think it 's time , I think we both agree that the time er well used because it 's for the because your Lordship will have a better understanding of the evidence when the plaintiff and the defendant give it from the witness box .
28 This is a regular old chestnut and the advice given depends very much on who is giving it .
29 Once the superbike race was over McCallen presented himself again for examination and the doctors gave him the all clear for the Regal 600cc race .
30 Thus far I have , in the main , been looking at the problem in the context of a conflict between parents and the minor , either the minor consenting and the parents refusing consent or the minor refusing consent and the parents giving it .
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