Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury has sought assistance and , once it appears that the problem is one of fact , the judge has not inquired further but has merely given general guidance , as in the present case . |
| 2 | Its parent company has already given offset undertakings in the USA . |
| 3 | Although he has always given strong leadership , Jan Hoet has not acted by divine right but more like a president , encouraging an on-going debate between the exhibition 's four curators . |
| 4 | He is of the opinion that Mr Prescott has probably given wide broadcast of these questions . ’ |
| 5 | It has also given legal effect to the judicial monitoring procedure , but there is no accountability of the Commissioner to Parliament despite the concern about this type of procedure which was raised in public after the Massiter affair . |
| 6 | He has also given explicit expressions which relate the asymptotic Kasner exponents along the singularity to the initial data specified along the wave fronts of the incoming colliding plane waves . |
| 7 | Against all expectations , the BBC has also given live coverage to a number of select committee hearings , typically when they were dealing with issues currently in the news , such as the Chancellor of the Exchequer giving evidence to the Treasury and Civil Service Committee on the Autumn Statement . |
| 8 | Our colleague Mark Wheadon has also given valuable help . |
| 9 | The Parliamentary Accounts committee has recently given English Heritage a roasting for having produced a slash-and-dash strategy document last autumn without having consulted any of the relevant professional bodies . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Older vehicles can be operated satisfactorily given appropriate maintenance , but eventually this becomes uneconomic . ’ |
| 11 | By massing overwhelming artillery strength on a short front , and replacing prolonged duration of fire ( which had hitherto given ample warning of attack to the defenders ) by the number of guns employed , he hoped so to disrupt French trench lines that , when the bombardment ceased ; a relatively small German force could advance with little loss . |
| 12 | Miss Dixon , of Haxby Road , Middleton St George , claimed she had merely given moral support to a colleague who rang Darlington Health Authority for advice on mice and cockroaches seen in the corridors . |
| 13 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 14 | Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this ; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial , so this included Tosspot . |
| 15 | It was not a matter to which any of them had ever given great thought . |
| 16 | Forty years of political broadcasting and handling refugees had probably given Leni as good a sense of how the twilight world worked as Agnes had herself . |
| 17 | All subjects had voluntarily given written informed consent before the start of the study . |
| 18 | Rabin told the Knesset that while he had sanctioned the use of force , he had never given illegal orders . |
| 19 | Locke does suggest , indeed , erm and erm the example that , the rather silly example that I just gave is meant to bring this out , erm that of course those who have only given tacit consent are not full members of that civil society . |
| 20 | We know that the Government have already given British Rail approval to spend £66 million — an awful lot of money — on the preparatory work . |
| 21 | The uncertainties surrounding supplies of fossil fuels have nevertheless given nuclear energy a powerful boost . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly in the case of the Mail , this policy stems from their strong middle class female readership profile , but other papers have also given regular space to mental handicap issues within what they see as a ‘ crusading ’ role towards the British public . |
| 23 | Following this type of model , conventional histories of English have customarily given considerable attention to phonological and morphological change and diversity in Indo-European , Germanic and Early English . |
| 24 | The ICF have now given provisional recognition to the canoe federations of Slovenia and Croatia as independent organizations . |
| 25 | Bans on parades are always seen as a sign of weakness , and as such have frequently given militant Protestants a chance to show , by defying the bans , that they will not be a party to any ‘ sell-out ’ . |
| 26 | Some member states are better than others as regards the accessibility of such information ( and not all have yet given domestic effect to the EEIG Regulation ! ) . |