Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [be] given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ministerial meeting in Dhaka , the Bangladesh capital , attended by representatives of 30 of the world 's least-developed countries ( LDCs ) , ended on Feb. 12 by urging that the 42 countries in this category be given special treatment , including a write-off of all outstanding debt , doubling of official development assistance , and special preferential access for their commodity exports to the developed world . |
| 2 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 3 | Some nests are given waterproof roofs by using particularly wide strips of leaves for the top half . |
| 4 | The great problem is that evaluation focuses upon outcomes rather than processes , and this bias is given increased emphasis in the context of National Curriculum assessment arrangements . |
| 5 | This legislation is given legal effect upon subjects by virtue of judicial decision , and it is the function of the courts to say what the application of the words used to particular cases or individuals is to be . |
| 6 | ( a ) Every partner must make full disclosure to his co-partners This duty is given statutory force by s28 of the Partnership Act : Partners are bound to render true accounts and full information of all things affecting the partnership to any partner or his legal representatives . |
| 7 | And I am not entirely persuaded that the views of colleagues in this matter were given adequate weight when the final decision was taken . |
| 8 | Where the question before the court relates to the upbringing of the child this principle is given statutory form by section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1989 , but the test would now be the same even without the intervention of statute : see J. v. C. [ 1970 ] A.C. 668 , 697 , 724 ; In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Sterilisation ) [ 1988 ] A.C. 199 , 202 , 212 . |
| 9 | This principle is given statutory effect in s19 of the Partnership Act : The mutual rights and duties of partners , whether ascertained by agreement or defined by this Act , may be varied by the consent of all the partners , and such consent may be either express or inferred from a course of dealing . |
| 10 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 11 | Moreover if these covenants were given full force , they would tend to reduce his freedom to seek better conditions even by asking for a rise in wages ; because if he is not allowed to get work elsewhere he is very much at the mercy of his employer . |
| 12 | And the treatment is very simple , it 's by diet and if these children are given appropriate diet they will grow up entirely normal as intellectually able as anybody else . |
| 13 | These initiatives were given extra impetus by reduced rates of revenue growth throughout the 1980s which forced changes in expectations and management behaviour . |
| 14 | These records were given conventional catalogue numbers and were sold at normal prices , but they have special label designs . |
| 15 | Joxer Daly ( Paul Magee ) contributed an amusing foil to Boyle and both these actors were given well-deserved rounds of applause . |
| 16 | Time of Submission The time of submission of the application within the date set by the UCAS is not important ; all candidates are given equal consideration . |
| 17 | Time of Submission The time of submission of the application within the dates set by UCAS is not important ; all candidates are given equal consideration . |
| 18 | Because all countries were given equal weighting , regardless of population size , the importance of small , high-income nations ( for example the oil-producing Gulf states ) was accentuated . |
| 19 | All guests are given special rates at the hotel 's town centre restaurant Jaccarino , Gardenia & Girasole Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine and flowers and fruit . |
| 20 | The discredited test was used since the Seventies to identify impurities , and many owners were given clean bills of health on houses which subsequently were found to be contaminated and are now in danger of collapse . |
| 21 | Each woman is given free range over her speech and ideas , creating a relaxed format through which the personality of both poet and interviewer emerges comfortably . |
| 22 | That congregations be given ample opportunity to sing in services , even where they have to be unaccompanied ( 528–529 , 540 ) . |
| 23 | As in Pearl , a stock phrase or cliché can at any moment be given new point . |
| 24 | Crevasses were walked around or jumped over , and those of any size were given respectful avoidance . |
| 25 | Several ministers were given new portfolios , including Chu Okongwu , hitherto Minister of Budget and Planning , who was reassigned to special duties , marking the return of responsibility for the budget to the Finance and Economic Planning Ministry . |
| 26 | In this country we discovered the value of prevention and rehabilitation in the 1950s and 1960s and our belief in permanence achieved through working with a child in his own family was given legal sanction in Section 1 of the 1963 Act . |
| 27 | Different files for the same client are given linked numbers . |
| 28 | The dietician will give advice so that each individual is given adequate nourishment . |
| 29 | Each company is given considerable autonomy so it can know and respond to local markets . |
| 30 | But otherwise — if both cars were given equal care — what could distinguish them ? |