Example sentences of "given a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . ’ To the non-musician , the name Mozart means the archetypal prodigy , the boy who started composing at four years old , and as a child touring the courts of Europe astounded monarchs with his amazing aptitude for keyboard playing ; who at 14 copied out from memory a complex choral piece heard once in the Sistine Chapel ; who died in mysterious circumstances and was given a pauper 's funeral in an unmarked grave . |
| 2 | The advocates of equality , as well as those more concerned with other goals , are given a cue for reflection on the inequalities of equalization . |
| 3 | The audience is thus given a cue as to what is likely to happen , and dramatic tension is created by the characters ' knowing as much as they do , but carrying on regardless . |
| 4 | In the latter situation subjects were given a cue prior to the stimulus presentation ( pre-cued condition ) so that they knew beforehand whether to report the inner or outer column or the letters printed in a particular colour . |
| 5 | The effect of applying for an IVA can be dramatic ; the individual is given a breathing space . |
| 6 | The effect of applying for an IVA can be dramatic ; the individual is given a breathing space . |
| 7 | Turtle breeding beaches in western Cyprus have been given a breathing space by the decision of the government to freeze development in the area for one year . |
| 8 | And the State Department said sure , you know , cos they did n't have a deadline , the president had n't given a deadline . |
| 9 | New Zealand international hooker Duane Mann has also been given a deadline of next week to decide on his new deal . |
| 10 | ‘ The club were given a deadline of November 29 1991 for confirmation of the terms agreed with their agents , but the agents have recently confirmed that the club no longer wish to purchase the property . ’ |
| 11 | A senior Government minister replied that people were being given a stake in society by being allowed to buy their council houses . |
| 12 | Second , Leys then notes that the civil bureaucracy is given a stake in the system . |
| 13 | Remember that the principle is that the audience is given a stake in what is performed ; they are an interactive part of the drama . |
| 14 | Onlookers at a charity sponsored walk were given a smile , as some rather large oriental visitors gave the event their support . |
| 15 | The program 's task , given a diagram like that of Figure 2 , is to discover whether the arrangements of blocks depicted is stable , — if it is not — to predict the movements ( falling , sliding , motion ended by contact with another block ) and the final state of various blocks . |
| 16 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 17 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |
| 18 | You do n't say whether you were fined or , more likely at that age , given a probation or a conditional discharge . |
| 19 | Second , the male family members , because they are male , are given a credibility — and hence power — to influence non admission not given to female members . |
| 20 | The state of destination is given a discretion ( though the convention does not specify by which organ of the state the discretion is to be exercised ) to execute a letter rogatory which does not indicate the person to be held responsible for the costs and expenses ; the point here is that there is a discretion to refuse to execute letters in such circumstances . |
| 21 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 22 | In some instances failure to comply becomes a separate offence with prescribed penalties ; in others , the court is given a discretion to treat silence as if it were a contempt of court . |
| 23 | ‘ The court is given a discretion as to the costs to award . |
| 24 | However this is a claim made solely on the evaluation of the IBM team and it has n't been given a stamp from the National Computer Security Centre . |
| 25 | She was given a minute 's grace , then the phone rang . |
| 26 | In this particular case , the interviewee had been admitted to hospital with hepatitis and pancreatitis and given a methadone reduction course whilst recovering from the operation : |
| 27 | They were given an ounce of twist tobacco a week and two at Christmas , when they were also given a pint of beer . |
| 28 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 29 | That 's why a blood donor if they 've given a pint of blood they 're told not to smoke afterwards if they 're a smoker . |
| 30 | The only thing given to us at all in that line was every policeman on night duty was given a pint of coffee . |