Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] given [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 2 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 3 | Matrix isolation has given some surprising results in the study of vapours from molten salts . |
| 4 | None of the members of the Russian delegation has given any ground for premature celebration . |
| 5 | This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 6 | Another problem is that the administration has given few details on the cash that it will put up to induce mining companies to begin new ventures . |
| 7 | Your publication has given some of the world 's best humorists and cartooonists their most memorable exposure and has inspired countless others to pick up the pen and make complete fools out of themselves . |
| 8 | As I understand it , Kitto J. is saying that the mere availability to the payee of summary remedies for non-payment may amount to sufficient compulsion on the payer to entitle him to recover irrespective of whether the payee has given any indication that he proposes to exercise such remedies . |
| 9 | Do n't you think that fate has given enough hints ? ’ |
| 10 | Another pussy-whipped judge has given some broad a ten-bob fine for murdering the milkman — premenstrual tension , PMT . |
| 11 | The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock . |
| 12 | The handicapper has given both of them 10st , with last year 's winner Waterloo Boy heading the weights on 12st . |
| 13 | The Commission has given some guidance on how to distinguish between cooperative and concentrative operations in a published notice . |
| 14 | We can look to the USA where the role played by the National Commission for Preservation and Access has given this type of work a high profile , including recent projects on images . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the government has given much . |
| 16 | The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme . |
| 17 | It is the first time that the organization has given such a direct warning , however . |
| 18 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 19 | We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure . |
| 20 | We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure . |
| 21 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 22 | ‘ I do not think any publisher has given any journalist that chance before in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 23 | On the whole , however , the left has given little priority to these issues . |