Example sentences of "[prep] a given [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , in the large majority of civil law systems a dispossessed owner is barred from claiming back a stolen work of art after a given number of years if the purchaser is in good faith . |
| 2 | I have said ( in Chapter 2 ) that one can calculate the rate of protein synthesis by injecting a radioactively labelled amino acid into the bloodstream and measuring the amount of radioactivity to be found in the protein of particular brain regions after a given time . |
| 3 | If terms like ‘ affective psychosis ’ , ‘ schizophrenia ’ and ‘ schizoaffective disorder ’ have a use , therefore , it is merely as labels of convenience , as shorthand descriptors of the flavour of a given individual 's form of insanity — and even then often only at a certain point in time and subject to qualifications as to the severity of disability . |
| 4 | A mental event is individuated , first , as being within the consciousness of a given individual . |
| 5 | Examination of this material ( very much as described in Chapter 2 ) enables the identification of the dies used in the sample , and one can then work out the total number of dies represented in the sample of a given size . |
| 6 | They point out that the model predicts that a stimulus will lose associability if it is consistently followed by a reinforcer of a given size but that if the size of the reinforcer varies from trial to trial then associability will be maintained . |
| 7 | Power calculations ( the power of a study of a given size to detect a particular difference ) were applied prospectively to quantify the size of study required to detect a change of 40% with a power of 90% ( vide supra ) . |
| 8 | This concerns the division of a given change in aggregate demand between price responses and output responses . |
| 9 | By corollary monetary policies which are geared to stabilizing the rate of growth of the money supply ( or , more generally , reducing the unanticipated component of a given change in the money supply ) will eliminate the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment . |
| 10 | The meaning of a given sentence , so far as it has one , is not some determinate characteristic which it carries around with it . |
| 11 | We might hold that the meaning of a given sentence is so rich and particular that it could never be captured by another sentence in a different language . |
| 12 | In such circumstances the procedure might be able to decide the equivalence of a given pair of programs , and would in all other cases reduce the question of their equivalence to a boolean expression . |
| 13 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 14 | Repeated presentation of a given stimulus , therefore , will allow a network of links to be established among the elements that go to make it up ( particularly strong links being formed among those elements that tend to be sampled frequently ) . |
| 15 | By stereophonic means a situation was created such that each ear heard the same two virtually simultaneous messages but , due to a very small difference in the time of arrival of a given stimulus at the two ears , one message appeared to come from the subject 's left while the other appeared to come from the right . |
| 16 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
| 17 | Suggestions have included the proportion of adults who can read , or the proportion of females attending primary school ; one can be sure that the higher either of these indicators go , the more the basic educational needs of all members of a given society are being met . |
| 18 | At some points in the history of a given society people have rebelled and challenged this inequality ; at other points they have meekly accepted their subordination ; but probably most of the time people adopt a posture midway between these two extremes . |
| 19 | It is therefore the means by which the individual is socialized as a member of a given society , and is , in turn the form of all individual and social creativity . |
| 20 | Moreover , since there is no irreducible kernel of class interest which in the last analysis guides all else , the ideas , the culture , the religion of a given society may well play a critical role in explaining social and political development . |
| 21 | Within this tendency , the basic ‘ facts ’ or ‘ structure ’ of a given society and/or period are received or are established by general analysis , and their ‘ reflection ’ in actual works is more or less directly traced . |
| 22 | To regard it as a picture of a given society leads in turn to history , politics or sociology . |
| 23 | Confirmatory techniques exist to assess how likely a difference of proportions of a given magnitude is to arise in sample data when it has been drawn from a population in which no such difference exists . |
| 24 | In this context , texture is the visual equivalent of the ‘ feel ’ of a given surface . |
| 25 | However the term includes not only the different forms of a given verb , adjective or noun ( ‘ tree'/ ‘ trees ’ ) , but all types of association of form and meaning . |
| 26 | Otherwise that consumer could rearrange purchases out of a given income to make himself or herself better off . |
| 27 | The Marxist approach is one of fitting political activity within the confines of a given ideology . |
| 28 | The suggested causes of a given phenomenon can not always be independently observed , and so it is hard to rule out the possibility of there being explanations alternative to the one proposed . |
| 29 | The selection of an individual theme of a given clause in a given text is not in itself particularly significant . |
| 30 | There are several tried and tested arrangements of units and appliances which will give an idea of the use you can make of a given shape : The one-wall kitchen , the U-plan kitchen , the L-shaped kitchen and the galley kitchen . |