Example sentences of "[vb infin] given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 2 | So the coalition should have given a reasoned reply , welcoming the offer to withdraw and saying that all the other issues are open for discussion once the withdrawal has taken place and a cease-fire is in operation . |
| 3 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 4 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 5 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 6 | Her absence ( if it was regular and fairly lengthy ) would presumably have given a similar opportunity to her husband . |
| 7 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 8 | If the patient has been misled or misinformed he may not have given a genuine consent or refusal . |
| 9 | Your report ( 4 March ) regarding the proposed housing and golf course development at Archerfield , East Lothian , may have given a misleading impression of the current situation . |
| 10 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 11 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
| 12 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 13 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 14 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 15 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 16 | Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research . |
| 17 | D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ . |
| 18 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 19 | She was an extraordinarily attractive girl , with a pale complexion , a freckled face , and ginger hair : a girl for whom most of the other GIs would willingly have given a monthly pay-packet . |
| 20 | An action for breach of statutory duty would have given a strict liability action in many cases of road traffic accidents . |
| 21 | The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry . |
| 22 | However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect . |