Example sentences of "given a certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to the pope ; and although she was in a less strong bargaining position than James V , now that there was no Protestant threat from England , she was given a certain amount of clerical taxation in 1556 and 1557 . |
| 2 | In the uplands , National and Regional Parks have been designated ; there are also more specific sites given a certain degree of protection . |
| 3 | The boys were to be given a certain amount of trust in their activities so that they might have the opportunity to make themselves moral , which in turn could help them become good and valuable members of the community . |
| 4 | If nurses ' jobs are given a certain value , then ambulance workers ' and hospital porters ' wages may be calculated by comparing their contribution with that of the nurses . |
| 5 | Another Scottish employer is quoted by Macdonald as saying that " given a certain area of floor space for men and women , on the former would probably be produced half more than on the latter " . " |
| 6 | Lay magistrates are also given a certain amount of training , in which sentencing matters feature fairly prominently , and are assisted in the exercise of their powers by a legally qualified clerk . |
| 7 | Given a certain meaning which the courts have ascribed to the term employee , how closely should they supervise the application of that term to the facts of a particular case ? |
| 8 | Such an interpretation of the relationship between elected politicians and appointed officials is given a certain amount of credibility by the existence of distinct bureaucratic organizations staffed by people recruited and deployed on the principles of political neutrality , merit , anonymity and expertise . |
| 9 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 10 | We have noted that , given a certain type of search space , the A* algorithm may behave in the same way as breadth-first search , since the latter is a special case of the former . |
| 11 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |
| 12 | middle-age crisis and so on and so forth although you know given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous |
| 13 | I think one of the great areas of such as system is in teaching young doctors , in training people , and an expert who ca n't tell a tutee why he has given a certain answer is n't really much good as a teacher . |