Example sentences of "given a special " in BNC.
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| 1 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 2 | Reagan 's suite had been given a special phone number for the occasion , but the postmistress did n't believe in such nonsense . |
| 3 | RTZ has performed strongly this year , given a special boost by defend-against-Labour advice , suggesting a switch into stocks with heavy overseas exposure . |
| 4 | For the first time , everybody living within the evacuation zone was given a special ‘ action card ’ telling them what to do in a crisis . |
| 5 | The first nuclear stations , for example , were given a special ‘ plutonium credit ’ . |
| 6 | If the patient 's foot tends to twist as he stands on it , he may be given a special ankle support to help hold it comfortably in position . |
| 7 | In a consultative approach , one knowledge source , typically encoding some kind of focusing information , is given a special role . |
| 8 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 9 | Teachers were prevented from joining any Polish cultural or Catholic societies , and German language teachers were given a special bonus if they volunteered for work in Polish-speaking districts . |
| 10 | When the over ended he took the umpire aside and explained ‘ I have two artificial hips and I do not really know where my feet are going to land ’ — he was given a special Man of the Match award . |
| 11 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Visitors to Salisbury Cathedral will be given a special voucher in the form of a parchment scroll . |
| 14 | In the absence of charters , the new colonies on the south shore devised constitutions of their own : Connecticut 's Foundations in 1639 were primarily concerned to bring a group of separate towns , each with a rural hinterland , together as one colony with a congregational approach to religion which would avoid the dangers of conflict and division , while the Constitution of Rhode Island , established in 1643 , took a long step further towards complete commitment to the view that no particular variety of religion would be given a special position and that everybody would be allowed to carry on worship freely . |
| 15 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 16 | Academically , the School prospered : Thomas Ashe was given a special Exhibition at St. John 's College , Cambridge ( the other two were already taken up ) , and when Howell died in August 1858 Mr. C. E. Norris , an Old Boy and a previous Goldsmiths ' Exhibitioner at St. John 's College , Cambridge , was appointed to take over . |
| 17 | They too are given a special smelly identity , for their owners have scent glands in the soles of their feet . |
| 18 | What thus far was a general argument for the validity of all social sciences was given a special emphasis by Vico 's idea of finding the ‘ principles ’ of civil society ‘ within the modifications of our own human mind ’ . |
| 19 | Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . |
| 20 | Polyester or down-filled sleeping bags will be washed or dry cleaned before being given a special waterproofing treatment with Nikwax TX10i . |
| 21 | The Humanist stress on the importance of the word was not only redoubled but given a special orientation by the Reformation-which experienced its supreme crisis , the Diet of Worms , in 1521 , four months before Josquin 's death . |
| 22 | Amy Roberts , a winner in 1991 , was given a special prize of two tickets for Me and My Girl , and later went to Edinburgh Playhouse with her mother , Ruth . |
| 23 | So it was on Tuesday the twenty-third of April , 1968 , an occasion given a special fin de siècle luminosity by the knowledge that , for many of us , it was the last such event in our Oxford careers . |
| 24 | Television presenter Anne Diamond , who was given a special award by the Communicator of the Year committee for her work in highlighting the issue of cot deaths , appeared in a video screened at Torquay . |
| 25 | C. Farries Public Relations and Publicity Awards competition , resulting in the National Library being given a special award for this promotion ; and the SSL was also short-listed for The Scotsman Computer-User of the Year Award . |
| 26 | Shakespeare is given a special status . |
| 27 | The soliloquy in Renaissance texts is frequently given a special prominence because readers ( and the assumption is of play readers rather than audiences witnessing a production ) believe they are experiencing a moment of privileged revelation where the dramatist reveals a character 's interiority . |
| 28 | Aoun and his two colleagues , Gen. Issam Abu Jamrah and Gen. Adgar Ma'luf , were subsequently given a special pardon by President Elias Hrawi . |
| 29 | Society has also developed a new attitude toward pregenital drives , which are given a special value and are highly esteemed . |
| 30 | It is interesting to note that in the 1978 World Bank Report some communist countries were given a special category , ‘ centrallyplanned economies ’ . |