Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] was give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Brunswick , principal inspector in charge of the construction group for East Anglia , said the regional HSE was giving priority to falls because the figures in Suffolk , Norfolk and Essex mirrored the national average . |
| 2 | Money in the private account was given to the student at the end of the experiment . |
| 3 | As to why the application is before this court , that quite simply is because it was to this court that the implied undertaking was given ; we alone , therefore , have power to vary it . |
| 4 | If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for . |
| 5 | This was a report commissioned by the British government as an assessment of the prospects in the Biafran War , which in fact firmly predicted the inevitable victory of the Nigerian government — a victory which was , of course , inevitable because of the support the British government was giving to it . |
| 6 | For two infinite line currents the magnetic field was given by eqn ( 3.53 ) . |
| 7 | The average time from onset of symptoms to first being seen was 112 minutes and to attempted thrombolysis 172 minutes as in the early part of the study atropine was used in an attempt to convert the patient 's rhythm to sinus before the thrombolytic agent was given . |
| 8 | In the law courts , the French language was given equal precedence with Arabic . |
| 9 | There was a dark stain around the crotch of the trousers ; Magee wrinkled his nose at the stench the old man was giving off . |
| 10 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 11 | Here again the central place was given to the Labour Party . |
| 12 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 13 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 14 | For example , in the course of the only natural conversation that occurred on the topic of rape , the following account was given of how rape is evaluated : |
| 15 | After a long period of deliberation , during which Craganour 's owner Charles Bower Ismay was seen to become ever more pale , the official announcement was given : the race went to Aboyeur . |
| 16 | After the Catholic victory , the little Madonna was given the credit . |
| 17 | A stove in the corner of the little room was giving out great waves of heat and there was the smell of leather , sweat and cigar smoke which seemed to hang in all German guard-rooms . |
| 18 | The obvious solution was to give the board commercial freedom and control of its own destiny in the private sector . |
| 19 | In addition to answering Questions and the handling of all departmental business in the Commons , the Parliamentary Secretary was given responsibility for legal aid and the development of legal services ; relations with the Land Registry and Public Record Office ; some budget and resource matters ; and equal opportunities and women 's issues outside the judicial context . |
| 20 | The leading judgment was given by Dillon L.J . |
| 21 | Only the unmarried mother was given specific mention ; for the rest it was assumed that women would follow their husbands . |
| 22 | The decorated ware was given a black lustrous surface with spiral patterns in white , purple , orange and red : some of the patterns were elaborate , clever and confidently executed , showing a sophisticated understanding of the difficulties of designing for a curved surface . |
| 23 | The smooth-talking Noye was given a 14-year sentence for laundering cash from the Brinks-Mat raid . |
| 24 | However , in April 1989 an advisory teacher attached to the Primary Division was given responsibility for ‘ parents and community ’ along with her existing workload . |
| 25 | The Hawaiian tongue was given a written form for the express purpose of translating the Bible . |
| 26 | Martin Burns of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers ' Union alleged that catering facilities were being run down and warned that jobs would be lost if the in-house contract was given to a private firm . |
| 27 | None of the 55 patients was given any type of medical treatment during the study period and all were instructed to continue their normal dietary habits . |
| 28 | After the ruling Wolf was given 14 days to appeal but gave himself up to German police at the Austrian border on Sept. 24 . |
| 29 | The last time the 25-year-old Hooper was given a chance was when Grobbelaar contracted meningitis early last season . |
| 30 | The last time the 25-year-old Hooper was given a chance was when Grobbelaar contracted meningitis early last season . |