Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministero dei Beni culturali has given a firm ‘ no ’ to the latest plans from the office of architect Renzo Piano , co-designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris , for the restoration of the Palladian Basilica complex in Vicenza . |
| 2 | The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) . |
| 3 | Now Prabhakar , a 34-year-old applied physicist , is poised to become head of NIST , to which the Clinton administration has given a leading role in stimulating the US economy . |
| 4 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 5 | The lawyer had given a gloomy shake of his head . |
| 6 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 7 | This work has given a close insight into problems of pollution , congestion , intense company group pressure , sexism and racism . |
| 8 | The taxi-driver had given a rude sign to Myeloski 's disappearing back before turning to a bemused Duncan for support . |
| 9 | In the midst of the depression and a welter of screen bullets and punches Cagney had given a new definition of realism to the movies and this was a definition that Hollywood was delighted to accept . |
| 10 | It quoted him as saying that " if the Iraqis had given a positive response to our call sooner , the situation would be different now " , but also as adding that it had become " evident " that " the USA and its allies are pursuing wider aims than Iraq 's withdrawal from Kuwait " . |
| 11 | Glamorgan have given a six-week trial to former Kent allrounder Mark Dobson , 24 . |
| 12 | A company director has given a whole new meaning to the term ’ house painting ’ . |
| 13 | In the latest award , the MoD has given a five-year contract ( possibly doubled if options are exercised ) , worth up to £20 million to Hunting Aircraft to conduct initial flying training at RAF Topcliffe , in north Yorkshire . |
| 14 | COURTAULDS has given a local school a leg up the business ladder by helping them ‘ set up shop ’ as scientific equipment suppliers . |
| 15 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |
| 16 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 17 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 18 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 19 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 20 | First of all , in the elections to the assembly , the people had given a resounding vote of confidence to three parties , all of which were opposed to de Gaulle 's constitutional principles . |
| 21 | It should transpire that twice a week those who cared could learn to cook ; but apparently Millie herself was to be given no choice ; she was sent , with another five girls , to the kitchen at three o'clock and , there , came under the influence of Sister Cecilia , to whom God had given a nice nature and a light pair of hands with pastry . |
| 22 | BILL CLINTON has given a chilling warning that Britain 's cosy relationship with the United States is heading for the big freeze when he takes over the White House . |
| 23 | The Salman Rushdie affair has given a whole new meaning to both anti-racist and black community politics . |
| 24 | Birmingham-based BSA Tools boss Keith Bailey , 57 , claimed outside court that the Government had given a clear message it wanted to trade with Saddam 's regime . |
| 25 | Referee Jimmy Johnston had given a general warning about foul play only a few minutes earlier . |
| 26 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 27 | Yes , those ladies had given a useful fillip to his prestige . |
| 28 | SCHOOL governors have given a cautious welcome to news that the go-ahead has been given to expand Darlington 's overcrowded Catholic schools . |
| 29 | The advent of microelectronics has given a tremendous boost to Man 's capacity to acquire , process , store and disseminate textual , numeric and other forms of information . |
| 30 | In addition — and I will begin with this point — linguistics has given a special status to the kind of binary opposition masculine/feminine exemplifies , and of which deconstructionists , including feminists , have been critical . |