Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The lawyer had given a gloomy shake of his head . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The possession and mastery of one 's own instrument , and the opportunity to contribute to an ensemble have given an exciting new dimension to music-making . |
| 7 | BNFL 's donation towards the scheme is £25,000 while Sellafield Charity Snowball Committee has given a further £2,000 . |
| 8 | This work has given a close insight into problems of pollution , congestion , intense company group pressure , sexism and racism . |
| 9 | The taxi-driver had given a rude sign to Myeloski 's disappearing back before turning to a bemused Duncan for support . |
| 10 | The council 's community and leisure services committee have given an extra £3,100 to Bordon CAB and £3,700 to the Alton office in the financial year starting on April 1st . |
| 11 | The Gulf War has given an enormous boost to the cable television industry in India . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | If you suspect your meter has given an incorrect reading , you can ask for a check by government examiner . |
| 16 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 19 | We can preserve , conserve , store , freeze , can , bottle , jar or produce doorstep-fresh anything you want ( short of the snowflake ) , but as a result of this , a greater understanding of the very composition of food has become necessary , which in turn has given a deeper insight into handling systems . |
| 20 | The Salman Rushdie affair has given a whole new meaning to both anti-racist and black community politics . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This situation has given a further boost to the microelectronics industry , which now has the incentive to apply its research and development programmes to telecommunications . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Saar settlement had given a strong boost to Franco-German relations , while those with Britain had deteriorated because of the failure of the Suez venture . |
| 26 | Wurlitzer has given a geographical explanation of great fluidity . |
| 27 | In response Lúder had given a disciplinary " warning " to Cáceres which Menem , in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces , had refused formally to endorse . |
| 28 | National Trust members and the general public have given an enthusiastic reception to the National Trust Visa card and savings account scheme launched with Midland Bank in April . |
| 29 | In chapter 3 I shall discuss more fully the question of how far these demographic structures do affect the nature of family obligations , at any given point in historical time , considering in particular how far demographic factors in the late twentieth century have given a particular shape to kin groups . |
| 30 | CUSTOMERS at Child & Co have given an enthusiastic welcome to a newly opened museum room at the branch . |