Example sentences of "have given an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , so far as the Tribunal is concerned , Parliament accepted a privative clause of a kind which is unprecedented in modern English law , purporting to do what no Parliament has done before — it has given an administrative tribunal the power to determine its own jurisdiction . |
| 2 | If you suspect your meter has given an incorrect reading , you can ask for a check by government examiner . |
| 3 | He has ‘ written ’ far more books than any other driver in the history of the sport ; he has given an infinite number of ‘ in depth ’ interviews ; he has been the subject of as much and as adulatory film footage as the Fellini-like Enzo Ferrari , and while everything he says seems absolutely straight , nothing he says is without a sharp edge to it . |
| 4 | The Government has thus done what no government before has done — it has given an inferior tribunal the power to determine the extent of its own jurisdiction . |
| 5 | The Gulf War has given an enormous boost to the cable television industry in India . |
| 6 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 7 | This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 . |
| 8 | Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech . |
| 9 | She had talked about thresholds and he had given an authoritative paper on ‘ The Potent Castrato : the phallogocentric structuration of Balzac 's hermaphrodite hero/ines ’ . |
| 10 | The Romans had put an end to the social struggles in the Greek cities and had given an implicit guarantee of survival for the wealthy . |
| 11 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 12 | Mr George Jameson , a dentist in Southend Avenue , Darlington , had given an electronic dental chair , instruments and equipment worth around £1,500 . |
| 13 | The council 's community and leisure services committee have given an extra £3,100 to Bordon CAB and £3,700 to the Alton office in the financial year starting on April 1st . |
| 14 | Complaints sent from Malaysian businessmen to government officials have given an unprecedented insight into the extent of illegal rainforest logging in country . |
| 15 | National Trust members and the general public have given an enthusiastic reception to the National Trust Visa card and savings account scheme launched with Midland Bank in April . |
| 16 | CUSTOMERS at Child & Co have given an enthusiastic welcome to a newly opened museum room at the branch . |
| 17 | I join those who have given an enthusiastic welcome to the Queen 's Speech and to the measures within it . |
| 18 | The possession and mastery of one 's own instrument , and the opportunity to contribute to an ensemble have given an exciting new dimension to music-making . |