Example sentences of "to [be] given [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University has signed the SCOTCATAgreement which allows credit to be given towards academic awards to appropriate assessed learning . |
| 2 | It is important to check whether the dead person left any instructions with the Will about the funeral , or wished the body to be given for medical research ( see Section 7 ) , or organs to be donated for transplantation ( see Section 8 ) . |
| 3 | For groups to function at this level , opportunity has to be given for full social contact between members , and the emphasis has to be placed not on activity , but on group interaction . |
| 4 | A further general concern with the relaxed exclusionary rule in Pepper v. Hart is that , no doubt in an effort to limit the use of parliamentary material , it conflates questions of the admissibility of the material with questions of the weight to be given to admitted material . |
| 5 | Moreover , the notice that had to be given to temporary workers was always the statutory minimum ( one week if , as was usual , they had less than two years service ) rather than the extended notice ( often a minimum of four weeks ) which many of the organisations had granted to their regular workforces . |
| 6 | Priority to enter the USA was to be given to long-term refuseniks and those with close relatives in the USA . |
| 7 | A HERBAL health remedy marketed by a North Wales business is to be given to Russian cosmonauts to help them cope with stress in space . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , older workers themselves had apparently internalized the assumptions which underpin policy , including the priority to be given to young people . |
| 9 | Thought has to be given to future integration at the initial design stage , otherwise subsequent integration will be very difficult and expensive . |
| 10 | We regret the delay and we hope that the promised publication on Waddilove will be earlier rather than later in the current session , and that the government will take an early opportunity to publish clearer guidelines on its assessment of ‘ national need ’ for opencast coal , and the weight to be given to environmental considerations . |
| 11 | Special attention to be given to ethnic groups . |
| 12 | The new row follows talks last week at which Mr Clarke said that the ‘ firm ’ drug budgets to be given to regional health authorities and family practitioner committees would not operate , as the BMA feared , as cash limits . |
| 13 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 14 | There is not , of course total disagreement , but contradictory positions are present , even if they do not radically affect the priority to be given to economic growth . |
| 15 | Consideration can be given to producing a leaflet or , for virtually no cost , standard letters can be adapted into information sheets to be given to new and potential clients ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 16 | Consideration would also have to be given to other ways of gaining evidence of the skills implicit in the stated standards . |
| 17 | However , in a number of cases the courts have required special notice to be given to individual terms . |
| 18 | The second , and closely related , change is the permission in the Constitution on the Liturgy ( 55 ) for Communion under both kinds to be given to religious and laity in certain circumstances . |
| 19 | New issues and a new vocabulary bubbled to the surface of public debate , and different answers came to be given to enduring questions about who should govern and how . |
| 20 | " The Council heard a preliminary report from the Commission following talks with the Soviet government … with a view to drawing up proposals on short-term credit and longer-term support to be given to structural reforms . " |
| 21 | It may be apparent from the head chef 's comments that more time needs to be given to basic skills in the college 's scheme of work or that parts of the housekeeping syllabus need revision . |
| 22 | this would change the interpretation to be given to particular statutory provisions ; or |
| 23 | One would ‘ ring-fence ’ or protect the grants to be given to local authorities so they could not be used for other purposes ; the other would give elderly and disabled people in local authority residential homes the same social security rights as those in private or voluntary sector homes . |
| 24 | Another powerful financial weapon is the annual decision made by the government on the amount of grant to be given to local authorities to aid current expenditure . |
| 25 | I assure groups that have contacted me and which are concerned about over-regulation that I want a minimum of regulation and the maximum amount of discretion to be given to local authorities . |
| 26 | In 1651 the Dutch republic forbade its diplomats to accept gifts from foreign governments ; and in 1692 regulations were issued in Sweden which for the first time specified the value of those to be given to foreign representatives on their departure . |
| 27 | Mrs Rene Morris said she had been shown letters addressed to parents which said the form had to be given to head teachers before a decision could be made . |
| 28 | Further to Brian Porteous ' letter of 24 August 1990 I am pleased to be able to enclose the guidance notes and application forms produced by the Sports Council in respect of grant aid to be given to elected representatives on international sports bodies . |
| 29 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 30 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |