Example sentences of "given i [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | No all he 's given me each day is paper money plus about one fifty . |
2 | Very occasionally he 's given me tinned stuff and pretty naff it is , too : bland and soft , like something you 'd give a kitten . |
3 | All the swims that have given me good dace fishing seemed to have shared similar features , the main one being their tendency to become shallower towards the tail . |
4 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
5 | They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated . |
6 | You have given me thirty pence . |
7 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
8 | This has given me extra motivation for the rest of the season . ’ |
9 | He added : ‘ The Chinese students have given me great hope for the future of China and Tibet . |
10 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
11 | Now Zain has given me great help and everybody sort of helped er you know I 've discussed it with everybody and we 've almost finished erm a really good proposal I think . |
12 | This is , as I say , a matter which has given me much concern . |
13 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
14 | You should know , at least , that Punch has given me much laughter . |
15 | This railway has given me much pleasure . |
16 | In a world of fast transport and high mobility , working for an international company has given me much opportunity to travel , particularly in europe , the United States and the Far East . |
17 | It has given me many happy memories and I am looking forward to our all meeting again soon . |
18 | But above all , machine knitting has given me many new friends , both in our small club and the Northern Ireland Guild . |
19 | The sport has also given me many friends . |
20 | ‘ Richard has also given me many opportunities and without him and Peter my life as a freelance jockey would be made just that little bit more difficult . ’ |
21 | ‘ Wickedly wasteful , I know , but I smashed it , and set up a new one and I have painted upon that new one the first thing that has given me real pleasure for years , oh , years and years . |
22 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
23 | It 's given me five clear working days to set up my appointments for next week . |
24 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
25 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
26 | He 's gi given me this , given me that . |
27 | What have you given me that for ? |
28 | Now is it only K X that could have given me that ? |
29 | And they 've given me that . |
30 | One who had given me invaluable help in tracking down German sources and participants was a sixty-year-old cultural attaché at the German Embassy by the name of Herbert Sulzbach . |