Example sentences of "to [be] given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside England , apparently , there were no areas suitable to be given metropolitan district status . |
| 2 | When it comes to such matters as the protection of creditors and third parties dealing with a company , the obvious way forward is for the Community to lay down in its Directives detailed rules which are to be given similar effect under national law in all member states . |
| 3 | In a few cases , the social worker might have to make provision for young children to be given temporary care away from home , for instance if the patient is a single parent without any relatives who could care for the children . |
| 4 | A PETITION calling for motorists to be given round-the-clock access to a town 's main shopping street is being well supported by the public , say traders . |
| 5 | The need for the role of the community to be given paramount importance was stressed , that is , the community 's own perception of needs and desire to do something for themselves ( self-help ) . |
| 6 | About 1770 there was quite an elaborate proposal to create at Versailles another school for diplomats with thirty-six pupils , while others were to be given practical training by travel abroad or work , in preparation for careers as consuls , in the main French ports . |
| 7 | In Stirling this weekend , a pressure group geared to advancing the case for more women to be given key party posts will be set up . |
| 8 | This being found somewhat lukewarm , somewhat unsatisfying and unsatisfactory , the formulation was amended and became : that Bert and Jasper were empowered by those present to offer support to the Irish revolutionaries , and ask to be given concrete tasks . |
| 9 | For present purposes it does not matter whether the court has no power to order specific treatment to be given contrary to the doctors ' will or has power but will in practice not exercise it in such circumstances . |
| 10 | Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this ; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial , so this included Tosspot . |
| 11 | And he felt , obscurely , that the terrible accident needed to be given coherent thought . |
| 12 | This pessimistic view , held by such an eminent economist , has to be given serious consideration . |
| 13 | Following the completion of the audit [ specify ] , we will carry out a review of the company , giving particular attention to those areas which are likely to be given close scrutiny during any due diligence procedure . |
| 14 | The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 enabled planning approvals to be given subject to the condition that trees are planted , and local authorities themselves have power to plant trees on any land in their area . |
| 15 | In education , we have seen campaigns to allow girls to take crafts in school and to be given non-stereotyped jobs on the youth-training schemes . |
| 16 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 17 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains the polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 18 | The dressing staff was taken on " as required " and a good worker , lad or lass , was more likely to be given regular work . |
| 19 | Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child . |
| 20 | EMPLOYERS ARE to be given new powers to isolate union members who take part in unofficial strikes through selective sackings . |
| 21 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 22 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 23 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes which other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 24 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 25 | Andrew Andrews , a medical legal expert and legal adviser to Tunbridge Wells Health Authority , said it was not enough to be given legal powers and training . |
| 26 | All such rights , powers , liabilities , obligations and restrictions from time to time created or arising by or under the Treaties , and all such remedies and procedures from time to time provided for by or under the Treaties , as in accordance with the Treaties are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom shall be recognised and available in law , and be enforced , allowed and followed accordingly : and the expression ‘ enforceable Community right ’ and similar expressions shall be read as referring to one to which this subsection applies . |
| 27 | ‘ All such rights , powers , liabilities , obligations and restrictions from time to time created or arising by or under the Treaties , and all such remedies and procedures from time to time provided for by or under the Treaties , as in accordance with the Treaties are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom shall be recognised and available in law , and be enforced , allowed and followed accordingly . ’ |
| 28 | In order to provide for such a constitutional amendment , Parliament passed the European Communities Act in 1972 , which stated that the requirements arising now or subsequently from the Treaty ‘ are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom ’ ( European Communities Act , section 2(1) ) . |
| 29 | Others , such as the South Western , North Western and Midlands Boards , were less keen to raise tariffs to meet rising costs , and had to be given financial aid occasionally by the Central Authority from its reserves . |
| 30 | MAGISTRATES are to be given wide powers to fine criminals according to what they believe they can afford . |