Example sentences of "[be] given a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Priam ( fig. 92 ) watching Hector arm is made bald and stubbly ; and in the three great revellers on the back of the same vase ( fig. 93 ) Euphronios 's écorchés are given a more natural layer of fat over the muscle , and the foreshortening of the torsos is really remarkable . |
| 2 | In this technique metabolically significant compounds , like glucose or oxygen , are given a very low-activity , short-lasting , radioactive label which decays in a highly characteristic way , giving off sub-atomic particles called positrons . |
| 3 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 4 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 5 | The Silkience Hair Range , well known for its self-adjusting formula , has been given a completely new look . |
| 6 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 7 | Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place , would they have reacted differently ? |
| 8 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 9 | His eyes seemed to fasten on her immediately and Maggie had the irritated feeling that he had been given a very uncomplimentary description of her . |
| 10 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
| 11 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 12 | The great difficulty with music-hall and vaudeville , and this is a point of crucial significance to movie historians , is that they have earned or been given a very special place in the popular memory and in social history by those who recall with great fondness those heady pre-1914 days . |
| 13 | ‘ We have to raise money ourselves to do any outings , we 're given a very small budget so we have fund raising events , and the clients have total say about how we use that . ’ |
| 14 | Dreary reproduction chairs can be given a thoroughly modern look , smartened up with paint and the seats covered with a strongly textured fabric like tweed or corduroy . |
| 15 | As I said earlier I do not think that this is an area where the district councils should be given a completely free rein to interpret the matter within their own local plans . |
| 16 | M-tense can be given a purely deictic and strictly temporal interpretation , but it is an empirical question as to what extent L-tenses can also be treated in the same way . |
| 17 | Michael Hughes , who met up with the rest of the party here in Frankfurt last night , is likely to be given a more forward role supporting Dowie . |
| 18 | Self-examination of critical motivation can actually allow some of the more tempting ideological distortions we may feel inclined to pursue as ‘ truths ’ to be given a more accurate focus , to reveal their partiality to the reader . |
| 19 | Just 12 months ago , Salford were contesting a Lancashire Cup final against Wigan , but whoever succeeds Ashcroft will be given a more familiar brief , simply to avoid the drop . |
| 20 | Of course the ‘ genre ’ was somewhat doctored now : the forces of law and order had to be given a more positive and heroic role and there had to be far less suggestion of anarchy . |
| 21 | If the conservation movement had the same kind of publicity budget , the public might be given a more balanced picture . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman need not think that there is any military support for the idea that in the past the Navy has argued for a three-boat solution , and he will be given a very rough time by the Navy if he makes such a suggestion . |
| 23 | The successful candidates will probably be given a very expensive training , and it is fear of wasting money on training unsuitable applicants which is the reason for such a prolonged exercise . |
| 24 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
| 25 | Another white kitchen could be given a totally different look by adding green plastic handles and importing masses of plants and some green painted bamboo blinds . |
| 26 | Both he and the developer signed off the test record and he allowed all the modules in the package with development versions to be given a fully approved status . |
| 27 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee took the view that the phrase ‘ without consent ’ was a legal term which should be given a highly circumscribed interpretation . |
| 28 | The analogue recording is clean , smooth , and well-balanced , but benefits from being given a little extra playback volume to help bring the instruments into focus ; fortunately tape hiss levels are as low as you 'd expect on a good digital recording . |
| 29 | She had also made one or two favourable remarks on the occasions she 'd seen him working out , and had assured him that , once he 'd attained the standards she 'd set for him , he could look forward to being given a fairly prominent role in the next major presentation . |
| 30 | Wales is being given a quite different quota to England and because Cornwall is being included in England for this purpose we are being unfairly treated by Wales ' being generously treated . |