Example sentences of "[vb base] not given [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an effort she said , ‘ Listen , Frank , and you can pass this on if you want to : I 've not given Sleet to Mr Kennedy , nor sold it to him . |
| 2 | I have not given way to Opposition Members — |
| 3 | The remaining techniques have not given rise to general-purpose instruments but have proved useful in particular experiments . |
| 4 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |
| 5 | For the parent , the same phrase means the inverse : I have not given birth to the monster which my upbringing and socialisation led me to believe I 'd had , but to a normal member of the human species as I now define it . |