Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] give [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Where a rating authority had a statutory power , but no duty , to refund rates overpaid by mistake , the House of Lords granted judicial review and ordered repayment where the reasons given by the authority for its refusal to repay were held not to be valid .
2 Delegation of authority occurs in an organisation where a superior gives to a subordinate the discretion to make decisions within a certain sphere of influence .
3 ‘ Taxation ’ is no more than the name given to the quantification process whereby the amount of recoverable costs and disbursements is ascertained .
4 A new study by UN economists claims that farming contributes one-XXXX third less to national economies than the totals given by official figures , which do not take account of environmental losses such as soil erosion .
5 What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems .
6 Sommer and Zeger have estimated that if full compliance had been achieved in the Aceh study the reduction in mortality in months 4 to 12 would have been 72% rather than the 41% given by the intention to treat analysis .
7 Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support .
8 He pointed out that Village school 's roll of nearly 20 pupils was considerably larger than the number given by the Council 's policy document as the minimum desirable size , and moved that the school remain open .
9 That is much narrower than the jurisdiction given to the Nuremberg tribunal after the Second World War , which was allowed also to consider crimes against peace and crimes against humanity such as planning and waging of aggressive war and genocide .
10 However , although the averages given in the last column of Table 4 are of some value they do not convey the reality of referral and investigative work .
11 Although the authority given for this proposition , Robinson v Mollet , concerned the effect of a trade custom rather than an exclusion clause , it highlighted the unacceptability of changing the substance of a relationship without the fully informed consent of the other party .
12 And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ .
13 Until the consent given at marriage be revoked , how can it be said that the husband in exercising his marital right has assaulted his wife ?
14 If the interpretation given to the term unreasonable in Tameside is to mean that the Secretary of State must find behaviour akin to the ‘ red haired school teacher case , ’ then this emasculates the one control mechanism which he possesses .
15 This is so even if the interpretation given to an experience , or which stimulated the experience , is one not authentic to it , conditioned perhaps by the society of which the individual is a part .
16 In fact , if the answers given by 40 per cent of women quizzed for a new survey are anything to go by , the EC president might as well Jacques it in …
17 If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only .
18 If the instructions given by Mr. Tucker to the Burnham sub-branch had been carried out , my answer would have been otherwise .
19 The farmers ' descendants , moving over the generations into commerce and trade , stuck to the old peasant form of succession , if the picture given by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall of Family Fortunes in early nineteenth-century Birmingham and East Anglia is representative .
20 There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct .
21 Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled .
22 " I was delayed to some extent because the address given to me was 626 Cheyne Walk , which I could not find , but eventually the river police directed me . "
23 The film avoided showing the strategy and the overall complexity and scope of the operation , possibly because the orders given by some senior officers were later subjected to considerable criticism .
24 The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa .
25 Thus the first of Turan 's lists notes that it is nine years since the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha , Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " ( which therefore would have occurred in 840 ) , while the lists given by Menage record the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " in 839 .
26 ( 6.10 ) unc There is no point in assigning to a variable at the very end of its scope , since the value given to it can have no effect .
27 Its input impedance when terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is On using equation ( 9.1 ) again , this relation reduces to Thus the network of figure 9.11(b) terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) presents impedance at its input terminals , precisely the required termination for constant-k or m-derived T-sections. since the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is very close to over 85% of the pass band when m = 0.6 , the half-section of figure 9.11(b) with m = 0.6 interposed between a fixed resistance and the output of a constant-k or m-derived T-section will provide the T-section with virtually correct termination over most of the pass band .
28 If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect .
29 I readily acknowledge that I can not expect definitive statements from the Minister when the answers given by his ministerial colleagues , who have greater legal experience than the Minister and I possess , are , to say the least , somewhat circumspect .
30 This is especially true when the information given by the patient turns out to be astonishingly accurate , as on numerous occasions .
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