Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performances of Brahms 's piano sonatas tend to be either vigorous or spacious , the one approach emphasizing the impetuous element in this music written before he was 21 , and the other reminding us that even the young Brahms was a dour northerner much given to self-doubt . |
| 2 | The following year saw the passing by Parliament of legislation protecting foreign diplomats against criminal and civil proceedings — the most explicit undertaking of this kind hitherto given by any state — and a special mission to Moscow to apologise to Peter I for the insult offered to his representative . |
| 3 | As far as speed limits lower than the ‘ normal urban ’ 50 km/h ( 30 mph ) limit are concerned , this is subject to the consent of the Secretary of State which is ‘ in practice rarely given . ’ |
| 4 | for the women in the study , friendship both given and received gives meaning to existence and a structure to life in retirement . |
| 5 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 6 | They can interfere with existing uses and revoke a permission already given , even if the development has actually been carried out . |
| 7 | The meaning of this term is cold or extinguished fire and as applied to the instance just given would signify that the rights of the claimants had gone cold and their claims extinguished . |
| 8 | From the description of the AEC already given the demanding and disciplined nature of the course can be appreciated . |
| 9 | The semantic theories argue that the description just given is realized in and enforced by the very vocabulary of law , so that it would be a kind of self-contradiction for someone to claim that the law provides right s beyond those established through mechanisms sanctioned by convention . |
| 10 | When they played a low grunt normally given in response to eagles , the majority of the monkeys looked up . |
| 11 | Whether such sums are sufficient to enable councillors to spend more time becoming more involved in local policy-making is open to question especially given the ‘ career building ’ problem outlined earlier . |
| 12 | The test of whether there are unobservable electrons can not be the test just given for the presence of dragons . |
| 13 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 14 | Spanish fishermen continually faced fines for fishing in Moroccan waters under an agreement signed between Morocco and the EC in February 1988 [ see p. 35855 ] , and the European Commission finally agreed to convene a meeting to review the agreement of the mixed committee originally given the responsibility of supervising the agreement . |
| 15 | " Freedom once given can not be taken away . |
| 16 | The Maréchal de Bassompierre , again a military man , after another brief embassy to London five years later , was given by Charles I " four diamonds set in a lozenge , and a great stone at the end " : this was said to be worth £7,000 and was perhaps the most valuable present ever given by any English ruler to a foreign diplomat . |
| 17 | I would humbly propose that the contemporary artist be laid to rest along with his works : a royal burial of the kind once given to emperors in eastern lands , whose slaves and worldly possessions accompanied them on their final journey into the unknown . |
| 18 | You 'll be given a function like given in that form , Y equals some function of X. |
| 19 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 20 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 21 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 22 | Among the drawings Oberhuber transfers to Giorgione a group hitherto given to Giulio Campagnola — a logical step which may or may not prove correct . |
| 23 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 24 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 25 | Like a pressure-cooker suddenly given release . |
| 26 | The impression of democratization thus given was , in fact , dispelled by the restrictive nature of the suffrage , which was limited to heads of households and married women . |
| 27 | Poststructuralists aspire to remove what they regard as the arbitrary distinctions between literature , criticism , theory , and philosophy , and Geoffrey Hartman has made it clear that he believes what he writes to be worthy of the esteem and attention normally given to ‘ creative ’ writing . |
| 28 | The neutrino normally given off in beta decay is a first-generation neutrino , and called an ‘ electron neutrino ’ . |
| 29 | It should also take account of planning consent already given , making planners consider communities as an integrated whole . |
| 30 | This is surprising when one remembers the importance frequently given to local housing need which can only be satisfactorily defined in relation to an understanding of social groups and information on incomes . |