Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 2 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 3 | He has since given over his castle to the worship of Isis . |
| 4 | Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably . |
| 5 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 7 | The pidgin form used ( and it can exist with or without fixed English syntactic markers ) has naturally given way in the USA and Scandinavia to a greater interest and access to the sign language as used by deaf people . |
| 8 | This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers . |
| 9 | It has the best links between applications , and Spinnaker has obviously given some thought to the future needs of users by including OLE support . |
| 10 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 11 | The National Rivers Authority has only given its approval for half the planned graveyard . |
| 12 | The National Rivers Authority has only given its approval for half the planned graveyard . |
| 13 | The jury has sought assistance and , once it appears that the problem is one of fact , the judge has not inquired further but has merely given general guidance , as in the present case . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't it totally unsatisfactory that the Health Secretary has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than the parents of the children ? ’ |
| 15 | Dounreay has apparently given AECL a quotation and AECL is now considering it . |
| 16 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 17 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 18 | Nuttall has elsewhere given a mischievous account of an academic occasion in which a speaker insisted on asserting , ‘ It is a truth that the workers are oppressed . ’ |
| 19 | The fall in Third World export prices has thus given a boost to the Gross National Product ( GNP ) of the rich countries , to the tune of something like $100 billion a year . |
| 20 | Cumani , unlike many of his counterparts in the vanguard of British trainers , has not given the Cheveley Park saturation coverage in the past . |
| 21 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 22 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 23 | At present , only France has not given its go-ahead for ERS-2 funding . |
| 24 | The principal concern at the UNHCR is that Britain has not given voluntary repatriation time to work . |
| 25 | There are things which God has not given us to know , and we must learn to accept this patiently . |
| 26 | The LDDC has not given local authorities long enough to respond to planning applications ; some community groups have not been consulted ; until 1986 , all meetings were held in secret ; and the LDDC has paid only lip-service to local plans produced by the boroughs concerned . |
| 27 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 28 | It is for this reason that we sometimes ‘ know ’ details about a character that the author , we are surprised to find , has not given us . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 30 | The Bank has not given a formal ruling on this method of presentation from a capital adequacy perspective . |