Example sentences of "given a great [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 An ordinary NHS patient can ask to be given a greater degree of privacy in a separate room if it is not needed on medical grounds for other patients , and can pay for the privilege .
2 In Germany , too , pressures for the Reichstag to be given a greater say in the conduct of foreign policy could be felt .
3 Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers .
4 During the summit , Heads of Government will decide whether the European regions should be given a greater role in decision making in the Community .
5 Market forces would over the next five years be given a greater role so as to boost production and secure an average growth rate of 5 per cent ( against 3.2 per cent during the 1980s ) .
6 BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations .
7 THE new speciality paint buyer for DIY giant B&Q , the largest customer of International Retail , was given a greater insight into the Courtaulds Coatings business during a tour of the Felling , UK , plant .
8 These ideas were given a great push forward by the increasing impact of American thinking on British social policy from the late 1960s onward .
9 He added that holding the hostages had " given a great service to the cause of peace " but that the time had come to take a final decision on this " humanitarian issue " .
10 He was given a great welcome by the waiters and Jane was introduced to the Maître in person .
11 To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them .
12 ‘ As a new young photographer , he was being given a great opportunity and he could have spoilt things for himself by using me . ’
13 His clothes , originally worn by Lauren Bacall , Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe , were given a great boost recently when worn by the likes of Madonna and Deee-Lite .
14 I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination .
15 ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said .
16 In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class .
17 This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers .
18 Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ .
19 ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it .
20 It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ .
21 The emotive subject of rapes has been given a great deal of publicity , and every case of an alleged rape of a Serbian woman by an Albanian is used as a pretext for fierce agitation among the Serbian population .
22 He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community .
23 When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ .
24 Charlie says : ‘ I think it must be very difficult every day to give so much of yourself to so many people — and not feel in a way that , since you 've given a great deal , therefore you deserve love and warmth when you go home . ’
25 The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself .
26 The methodology in Advance with English leads the learners gradually from exercises in which they are given a great deal of guidance , to ones in which there is almost no guidance .
27 Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home .
28 I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft .
29 Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere .
30 He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous .
  Next page