Example sentences of "[noun sg] given the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mayberry ( 1978 : 33 ) points out : Today it is common practice to begin papers by setting the record straight , so to speak , sometimes with what strikes the reader as being an unusually strong position regarding inter-sign language comprehension given the current state of knowledge . ’ |
| 2 | The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR ; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain , so he argued . |
| 3 | Yet what workforce is left is asked , no it 's told that one point five is a sufficient pay rise given the present economic climate , the catch being up to one point five , not one point five . |
| 4 | This is a necessity given the ambiguous and errorful nature of speech . |
| 5 | It was seen as the most ‘ natural ’ division given the separate roles of men and women in society . |
| 6 | Cigarettes , they argue , are a special case given the huge price gap between full-priced brands at over $1 a packet and discount smokes that cost as little as 69 cents . |
| 7 | On the other hand the British government declined to share information on its civil nuclear programme given the high ( though misplaced ) hopes which were then placed in its commercial potential . |
| 8 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 9 | Flows may well be exogenous as they are likely to be known with a reasonable degree of uncertainty given the contractual nature of many savings policies . |
| 10 | This anomaly could , however , be remedied if the courts were to embrace novel theories of what constitutes loss given the novel essence of insider dealing . |
| 11 | Thus , while marriage was an experience common to women of all classes , there were substantial differences between middle and working class women in terms of first , their realistic expectations of marriage given the greater surplus of women amongst the middle class ( at least prior to World War I ) , second , their experiences of marriage breakdown , and third , their patterns of childbearing within marriage . |
| 12 | But it would be misleading to speak of separation given the religious foundations of his natural philosophy . |
| 13 | Since 1961 , it has happened 17 times in 31 seasons , or over half : a remarkable proportion given the economic imbalance that has developed already within English football during the last 31 years . |
| 14 | Something to do with control of terrorism I surmised , but rather a pointless exercise given the haphazard nature of public transport in Peru . |
| 15 | Some members of the Furness and District Society argued that now would be a good time to introduce a hardship test given the current unpopularity of the institutions . |
| 16 | Even small amounts of out-of-hours work are disruptive of one 's home life , the quality of which is of vital importance given the stressful nature of the team 's regular work . |
| 17 | This pessimism may have some truth given the present management approach within our schools but it is suggested here that if that managerial frame of reference was itself to be radically re-oriented , then teachers ' perceptions of their own professionality would also be powerfully affected and they may indeed come to feel that effective classroom activity was positively related to their performance in the wider school context . |
| 18 | Although librarians might not make the mistake of viewing selection as censorship , amongst the general public * might be difficult to make the distinction given the sensational and mischievous coverage given to some alleged library censorship in the media . |
| 19 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 20 | Presumably Skinner has followed David Wulstan 's theories of 16th-century English church pitch , a rather dangerous procedure given the diffuse nature of Wulstan 's evidence for such a practice . |
| 21 | Erm and and a point was raised in our our evidence given the existing overshoot of structure plan figures , erm the the the county county wide the figures have overshot the agreed structure plan figures , that should focus attention surely on on the need to more closely control the release of the committed land erm er that is currently without planning permission , through the development control process . |
| 22 | No mean achievement given the established market domination by Sage . |
| 23 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 24 | ‘ Snoopy , ’ the code name given the unchristened Praxsys software , promises to take all current and future off-the-shelf shrinkwrapped Windows applications , whether written for Windows 3.0 , 3.1 or NT , and run them unmodified on any RISC or Intel Corp Unix platform in native mode . |
| 25 | KINGS FOUNTAIN was last night given the clean bill of health he required to line up for tomorrow 's Mackeson Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 26 | HERBIE HIDE 's vacant British heavyweight title fight against Manchester 's Michael Murray was last night given the green light by the British Boxing Board of Control . |
| 27 | So far as adult education is concerned it would seem reasonable to expect some significant response to the women 's movement given the close association between adult education and popular political movements in the formative years , and also because women constitute the majority of students , in current adult education provision . |
| 28 | The rule-based approach proved to be too unwieldy and fragile to be of practical use given the current state of computer hardware and linguistic theories . |
| 29 | This is not a particularly useful definition given the significant distinction between ownership and control . |
| 30 | An inquest jury has returned a verdict of accidental death on an eighty three year old woman given the wrong blood after an operation . |