Example sentences of "[adv] given [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy .
2 Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries .
3 This horse has just given birth to a foal .
4 This mare has just given birth to a foal .
5 The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal .
6 The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal .
7 She mentions that once , having just given birth to a child , she was ordered by Christ to get up and go to Norwich , though her journey appeared to be without purpose .
8 A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter .
9 But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ .
10 For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy .
11 For the parent , the same phrase means the inverse : I have not given birth to the monster which my upbringing and socialisation led me to believe I 'd had , but to a normal member of the human species as I now define it .
12 The likelihood of a redrawing of the 817 project had surely been on the horizon since Louis married Judith ( especially so if , as seems likely , she had already given birth to a daughter , Gisèle , in 821 ) .
13 Pregnant women over the age of about 35 , those who have a close relative who has Down 's , or those who 've already given birth to a baby with Down 's , are usually offered a test to see if their foetus is affected .
14 You 've already given notice to the work-force , though you have n't paid them their dues .
15 Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour .
16 Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes .
17 The Board of Education has now given effect to the intimation conveyed by Mr. Acland and vaguely announced by him at the Annual meeting .
18 I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc .
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