Example sentences of "[noun pl] give " in BNC.

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1 How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ?
2 There is no doubt that the three surface positions for adjectives can be correlated with the three intensional patterns given in ( 37 ) .
3 Management therefore need information that helps them determine the cost and effectiveness of alternative programmes given a variety of resource constraints ( typically the imposition of cash limits and target staffing levels ) .
4 It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ .
5 These are not the accounts given by spectators and it is difficult to imagine them offering such accounts .
6 For example , neo-Marxist analyses of bureaucracy and the division of labour have converged on the accounts given by elite theorists ( Parkin , 1979 ) ; and post-Althusserian and post-Gramscian Marxism is indistinguishable from pluralism except in its vocabulary ( Laclau and Mouffe , 1985 ) .
7 Complementary to that record we have the accounts given by those fans of those very occasions and others like them .
8 Social roles within each of the groups have been isolated primarily from the accounts given by fans and from prolonged observation in the London Road End .
9 It is within this group that he comes to establish both personal social bonds within his particular sub-group , but also comes to feel part of a wider social collective , as witnessed by the ‘ we 're all in it together ’ type of accounts given by members .
10 Accounts given by individuals are inevitably selective in content and emphasis , and as we noted in Chapter 3 , the attribution of change to particular policies or causal factors is always difficult .
11 In accordance with the main theme of this book the accounts given here are drawn from the school sector ( primary and secondary ) and concentrate on activities that were conducted at the level of the whole institution ( although , in practice , the whole of the school may not have become involved ) .
12 I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci .
13 The primary source of this would be accounts given by the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union .
14 Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework .
15 70% of vacant council houses given to those not on the waiting list
16 EXPERTS given the task of finding the skills available in Middlesbrough have put the finishing touches to their City Challenge project .
17 As well as those prisoners given an amnesty , the Catholic Institute for International Relations estimates that at least 260 ex-Somocistas have already worked their way through the five stages of imprisonment and , although given long sentences , have now been released on the basis of their behaviour .
18 Not only do we need to build up a collection of RBGE staff publications , but we should also ensure that external researchers given significant access to RBGE facilities agree to deposit copies of their publications , reports and theses within the Library as a condition of use .
19 Once again we move by each playing one or other of these cards and the banker shells out , or levies fines , according to the rules given above .
20 They are just carrying out their life in accordance with the rules given them , as all ‘ people ’ including Chewong do .
21 But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as :
22 If a fork results from repeats in the genome ( and is therefore likely to violate the neighbourhood rules given below ) , it is reasonable simply to make a break in the contig because it represents a limit of the experimental technique used and other approaches using longer probes or clones may help to close the gap .
23 Examples of reasons given by the Secretary of State for not allowing a property to be exempted include :
24 Without Ramsey 's knowledge , Fisher came to the decision that he could not want Ramsey to succeed him , for reasons given above .
25 So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’
26 The reasons given , by new entrants and life-long farmers alike , for the attractiveness of farming for them included :
27 The reasons given were :
28 In the early stages we distinguish between ‘ other chronological writing ’ and ‘ non-chronological writing ’ , for the reasons given in 17.24 .
29 Except for cases of incurably ill pets , where owner and vet agree that euthanasia is best , the reasons given are as follows , in order of frequency : a ) The client wants the vet to agree that the animal is terminally ill/suffering/too old to treat .
30 Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting .
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