Example sentences of "given [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These findings of fact were given remarkably short shrift by Lord Parker C.J. who held that the conduct could not amount to insulting behaviour . |
| 2 | Again we have been given right royal treatment by a preserved railway , following our wonderful trip to the Llangollen last year . |
| 3 | His ‘ Organ ’ Symphony , recorded in Les Invalides , never sounded particularly impressive on LP given rather cloudy sound which took the edge off what was obviously a fine performance , but CD remastering has done wonders for the engineering and the results are most exciting . |
| 4 | So a snarling , spitting , clawing prey is given rather more respect than it may appear to deserve . |
| 5 | ALMOST two million shares in a company were sold within days of an investment analyst being given highly confidential information by its chairman , a court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ As rural communities have become increasingly marginal to national economies they have been given less political priority … |
| 7 | By recognising that a number of subjects have a valid and useful contribution to make , some elements may be given less weighty consideration than others and the interrelationships may become lost . |
| 8 | However , by 1986 it had become evident that the collapse in manufacturing had been so severe that alternative approaches based on tourism and retailing should be given much greater prominence ( MDC , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Significant passages of the speech , particularly on interest rates , were received in silence and other keynote statements were given only polite applause . |
| 10 | During the drought of 1976 this resulted in an unusually high concentration of nitrate in the aquifers under parts of East Anglia and warnings were issued in some areas that babies should be given only bottled water to drink . |
| 11 | There is a real concern that local management of schools will add to these pressures and that training in child protection will be given only low priority . |
| 12 | Conservationists expect the government to rely on the existing network of 5,800 sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , which are given only limited protection under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 13 | To compare the length of survival and quality of life in patients given combination chemotherapy in addition to supportive care and in patients given only supportive care . |
| 14 | We found that combination chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil , leucovorin , and cisplatin in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer increased time to progression and length of survival compared with those in patients given only supportive care . |
| 15 | First , textual effects are given only secondary importance : " style , manner , vocabulary and imagery may be borrowed , but personality is inalienable " . |
| 16 | Similar arguments might be advanced with respect to the measures of economic deprivation , which are presented as items five and six in table 9.7 and are given extremely low weight in the assessment of GRE , compared with the multiple use of housing indicators and of measures of ethnic origin . |
| 17 | From whatever angle you look things are wrong : even if Froggy had n't been murdered , it was unheard of that he should be given so much money up front to caddie for Harley . |
| 18 | The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance . |
| 19 | But in fact , Jackie had by then given so much thought to the sport , to its rules , its techniques , its politics , its characters , that he was unendingly fascinating . |
| 20 | Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton . |
| 21 | It seems doubtful that any other photographer has given so much attention to the condition of trees growing in close proximity to urban man . |
| 22 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |
| 23 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 24 | Why , then , has it given so much trouble to so many ? |
| 25 | There was much wrath that he had been meaninglessly sacrificed and a Test career that had given so much pleasure needlessly brought to a premature end . |
| 26 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 27 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 28 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 29 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 30 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |