Example sentences of "give [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Smith tried to kill off such speculation by emphasising that in a general election last week 's results would have given Labour a majority of 87 . |
| 2 | The classes are on certain days of the week only , but enrolment is not expensive given that a term is structured over the usual academic year . |
| 3 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 4 | Most important , given that a rogue GMO in the environment might continue to reproduce and spread , it can not be assumed that any system of regulation can adequately guard against an environmental catastrophe . |
| 5 | Given that a pharmaceutical company may have a database of perhaps hundreds of thousands of previously synthesised compounds , it is important to be able to ask whether anything in that database resembles a current lead compound or molecule of interest . |
| 6 | Given that a prime reason for investing in science is to boost the nation 's technological performance , where was the discussion about the implications of the government 's plans to privatise the British Technology Group , the descendant of a body set up by Labour itself in the mid-1960s to perform precisely this task ? |
| 7 | There is no reason why a change of context should restore α but given that a novel context is likely to be arousing , some increase in the likelihood of the OR might occur . |
| 8 | While prosecuted crime may be largely working class , whether crime as a wider category is so is rather debatable , given that a large amount of middle and upper-class criminality goes undetected . |
| 9 | In this sense it would be naive to make ‘ policy recommendations ’ , given that a central tenet of this work is that ‘ policy ’ is more the product of a particular set of vested interests than a technocratic implementation of neutral measures . |
| 10 | It was embarrassing to ask the punters at York Arts Centre to join in my comedy song by chanting the line ‘ fuck the system ’ , given that a fair few of them were over 60 . |
| 11 | Given that a large part of Sears ' business lies in the fashion area , responsiveness to the whim of the customer is particularly critical . |
| 12 | Given that a year 's ACT capacity will normally be falling outside the ‘ six year ’ period at each year-end , a company with potential surplus ACT problems will need to act promptly . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 14 | Given that a totally closed economy is no longer a feasible option , questions remain about the optimal timing , the sectoral priorities and the best forms of liberalisation . |
| 15 | Incidentally there is no problem in proving the uniqueness of the positive gcd — given that a gcd actually exists at all . |
| 16 | The principle , then , given that a does not know that q , and that a does know that p implies q , allows us to infer that a does not know that p . |
| 17 | Given that a detailed examination of every transaction of a business is impossible , auditing concentrates on a sample confined to a period of time or to a type of transaction which is singled out for detailed examination . |
| 18 | However , given that a demand must be served before proceedings could be taken , it does not follow that Mr. Thomas 's second proposition is correct . |
| 19 | Given that a male in the operations department is required who is able to speak Italian , the male list is scanned first . |
| 20 | ‘ This assumes that the investment managers are making an average return of around 13 per cent a year — which they should be able to do , given that a PEP is effectively a tax- free fund . |
| 21 | Given that a person could be an illegal entrant through deception , what standard of proof was to be applied when reviewing the immigration officer 's decision that a person had entered by deception ? |
| 22 | Given that a very precise and reliable estimate of a required yield is unattainable anyway , the problems of both interdependence and estimation of covariances from key factors may be less severe if financial analysts work with the more homogeneous SBU as the unit of classification , rather than with a division which may contribute to various corporate business activities . |
| 23 | Although this has been offset in sterling terms by the devaluation of sterling against the dollar , this is less significant to LASMO than to some other companies , given that a high proportion of its costs are denominated in dollars . |
| 24 | In fact I am finding it difficult to establish the exact terms of reference for this study , given that a number of related studies are already underway . |
| 25 | Backup — the old backup/restore routine will be gone forever ( we hope ) given that a version of the Norton Backup will take its place in DOS 6 |
| 26 | Given that a large part of FWWG 's assessment was based on interviews with engineers on the Monitored Professional Development Scheme [ MPDS ] , the training scheme has clearly received ‘ customer ’ approval . |
| 27 | Each transition has two probabilities : a transition probability which specifies the likelihood of the transition between the states and an output probability density function ( pdf ) which defines the probability of emitting a symbol from a finite set given that a specific transition has been taken . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't even given that a thought . |
| 29 | League tables of exam results will soon be published ; given that a class may contain 20 children who can not speak English , its position in any league table is bound to be low . |
| 30 | It should be apparent from the brief description given that a contract audit is capable of providing a means for improving the management and control of a contract . |