Example sentences of "[adv] given [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 2 | Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met . |
| 3 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |
| 4 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 5 | I have not given way to Opposition Members — |
| 6 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 7 | In the 1980s payments of this kind , and for related royalties and patents , have come to equal about 40 per cent of the income in dividends which accrues to foreign investors and they are usually given priority in payment over dividends . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) Cinema has always given primacy of place to images . |
| 9 | DRG 's property assets have also given rise to argument . |
| 10 | THE acoustics at the Anglican Cathedral have often given rise to speculation about its suitability for Philharmonic concerts . |
| 11 | He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank . |
| 12 | Early this morning , in the darkness of his bedroom , waking up after the nightmare , he had almost given way to panic . |
| 13 | Chevenement was actually given responsibility for industry as well as research just under a year ago . |
| 14 | The symbolic usage of here , as in ( 70 ) , can be glossed as " the Pragmatically given unit of space that includes the location of the speaker at CT " . |
| 15 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |