Example sentences of "given [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |