Example sentences of "given [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 2 | I found the book to be very readable , with each subject being given just the right amount of coverage , considering the intended readership . |
| 3 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
| 4 | To start with , imagine you are given just the physical outline of adults of several species . |
| 5 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 7 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 8 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 9 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 10 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 11 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 12 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 13 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |
| 14 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 15 | On the former 's side , there was a clear , oft-stated belief that the union movement represented the best chance of overthrowing the government , given both the electoral weakness and the apparent shift from ‘ left wing principles ’ of the Labour party ( see Crick 1985 , p. 140 ) . |
| 16 | Given also the considerable reliance of the Council and its committees and boards on the officers to prepare discussion papers , and the contributions of the officers to conferences and elsewhere , these meetings served both as a staff development exercise and as a forum in which ideas and formulations could be clarified . |
| 17 | ‘ There is a subtle way in which we are never given quite the full authority , never quite the full credit , never quite the full respect , ’ said one woman working for a big firm . |
| 18 | Mill 's famous ‘ proof is unpersuasive , as all such proofs must be , given either the infinite regress of supposed justifications higher than the ultimate justification or the viciously circular proposition that the ultimate justification is , illogically , its own justification . |
| 19 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 20 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |