Example sentences of "given [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task is to determine what we can know about the meaning and context of an utterance given only the knowledge that the utterance has occurred … |
| 2 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 3 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 4 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 5 | The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals . |
| 6 | Turning to the final point of the 1952 directive , it is noteworthy that ministers are to be given only the information MI5 decides they need . |
| 7 | I wondered sometimes if the effects of some sedative given perhaps the night before had not worn off completely by the time I came . |
| 8 | Yesterday , she 'd given just the cupboards she needed to use a superficial wipe-over . |
| 9 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 10 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems Inc , one of the players , has given up the SparcWare designation used by its Catalyst independent software vendor programme to the group 's new binary-compatible branding scheme . |
| 12 | My chief 's brother has given up the obstetrics side of his practice altogether now , and just does the gynaecology . ’ |
| 13 | Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost . |
| 14 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 15 | Doctors said that while his heart was fine , his vascular system had given up the ghost . |
| 16 | Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship . |
| 17 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 18 | Who had given up the ghost . |
| 19 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 20 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 21 | But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . |
| 22 | have given up the ghost . |
| 23 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 24 | This may all seem trivial , but I wonder how many fishkeepers have possibly given up the hobby at an early stage because they were unaware their fish were dying from nothing more sinister than overfeeding with resultant ammonia/nitrite stress — and nobody told them . |
| 25 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 26 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 27 | And now , sitting legs stretched , on a chair too low comfortably to accommodate his six feet two inches , eyes fixed on that single taper , unflickering in the incense-heavy stillness , he could hear again the tone , taut with self-disgust , in which Berowne had explained why he had given up the law : |
| 28 | By the following morning 's exercises — discussion of how to set about winning a Labour seat when the other candidate wo n't share a public platform with you , a mock television interview and a debate , several of the candidates who appeared strongest — including a chairman of the party 's Bow Group — seem to have given up the fight . |
| 29 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 30 | You will appreciate that as Chairman I have not given up the fight to get as much financial aid and help as is possible to keep our heads above water ; we must fight to keep all that we hold dear and promote the Medau that we all benefit from both in health and fitness , and as teachers , financially . |