Example sentences of "[noun] given the [adj] [noun] " 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 | It was seen as the most ‘ natural ’ division given the separate roles of men and women in society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 6 | The source of the effect seen in subjects given the S1-S2 treatment is accordingly difficult to interpret . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 10 | Commuting became fashionable again in the 1980s , and BR responded with new suburban electrification schemes , over a thousand new electric passenger vehicles and ( when replacement finance was not available ) 1950s units given the asbestos-removal treatment and a mid-life facelift . |
| 11 | These are usually low status roles , whereas the roles given the masculine gender are predominately high status , such as Businessman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | PAIN , along with parents , lawyers and many others involved in the Orkney case , wanted to see those guidelines given the full backing of the law . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it would be misleading to speak of separation given the religious foundations of his natural philosophy . |
| 16 | Two minutes later Bird was forsaken and Stephens given the onerous task of kicking the winning penalty for Llanelli , a task achieved with ludicrous ease by a 20-year-old who this time last year was understudying Jonathan Davies ( remember him ? ) . |
| 17 | As noted , there are few long run effects given the negligible size of the lagged dependent variables — a point which shows in itself the instability of demand for issuance — the market tends to be subject to " feasts and famines " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Something to do with control of terrorism I surmised , but rather a pointless exercise given the haphazard nature of public transport in Peru . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Barnes tour of paintings given the legal go-ahead |
| 26 | All however show the full development of the idea of high relief : figures given the bodily roundness of statues but grouped in pictorial compositions against the background to which they are attached . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | No mean achievement given the established market domination by Sage . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | KINGS FOUNTAIN was last night given the clean bill of health he required to line up for tomorrow 's Mackeson Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |