Example sentences of "[not/n't] given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to its short running time , overall details of aircraft and events are not given great depth , but to the collector of archive aviation films this tape will be a welcome addition to the home library . |
| 2 | This poses a particular problem for Britain with her emphasis on the free-trading potential of the EEC , an objective which is not given similar prominence by her fellow Members . |
| 3 | Stone recurrence in these patients seems to be less than those not given adjuvant therapy but the length of follow up is shorter . |
| 4 | For example , the Church of Scientology has fought in the courts of Australia to be defined as a religion in order to be able to claim tax-exemption , while The Science of Creative Intelligence ( Transcendental Meditation ) has fought in the courts of the United States to be not given religious status so that it can be taught in the public ( State ) schools — a practice denied to religious organisations by the First Amendment of the United States ' Constitution . |
| 5 | This is an affect well known in some domesticated animals like sheep , it 's well known that if sheep are , if , if , if , if ewes are well fed just before they mate , they 're much more likely to er to twin than if they 're er not given extra food supplement and nowadays erm farmers wh wh who , who breed sheep for lambing er frequently feed , feed ewes a special diet just before er conception for that very reason , the rate of twinning increases . |
| 6 | One of the key planks of Majorism , for example , is an insistence on the integrity of the United Kingdom ; a view set out in his election speeches , though to his reported annoyance not given due weight in TV campaign coverage . |
| 7 | How often in the past have I not given due credence to relatives ' statements of how bad the client was ? |
| 8 | Estimating cholera-related deaths was made more difficult because the spread of the disease was not given official recognition , reportedly because of fears that it would adversely affect the country 's lucrative shrimp trade . |
| 9 | SIR — It has already been reported that , contrary to official policy , the scientific merits of candidates for academic promotion in Italy are not given primary consideration by the members of the judging commission , so it often happens that a loser has a curriculum vitae ( c.v. ) clearly superior to that of a winner . |
| 10 | The LDDC has not given local authorities long enough to respond to planning applications ; some community groups have not been consulted ; until 1986 , all meetings were held in secret ; and the LDDC has paid only lip-service to local plans produced by the boroughs concerned . |
| 11 | The software company which supplied the package is not unsympathetic but claims that it was just not given clear and sufficient guidance as to what was expected of the software . |
| 12 | He said that the Government had not given satisfactory reasons for choosing Scott . |
| 13 | If you are not given sufficient notice in accordance with your contract , the Consolidation Act provides that the termination date for certain purposes will be when either : |
| 14 | At the same time , the people who create these contexts , the teaching practitioners , are often made to feel that their own experience as pedagogic providers is not given sufficient recognition but is , on the contrary , misprized as lacking in rigour : wisdom which leads to understanding is overridden by knowledge which leads to explanation . |
| 15 | The above ideas were generated mainly on the basis of experiments and it is not surprising that many of the key characteristics of thinking in real situations were not given sufficient weight . |
| 16 | The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 12 upheld the August 1990 conviction of former DC mayor Marion Barry for cocaine possession , but referred the case back to the original trial judge for resentencing , on the grounds that the judge had not given sufficient explanation for his decision in October to impose a sentence of six months ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | The peculiarity of the proportions ( published in French and English in 1791 in an essay dedicated to the Prince of Wales ) is that the measurements are not given direct but are based on the head , divided into 22 equal parts ( according to Percivall , Eclipse stood 16l/2 hands high and the head measured 22 inches ) . |
| 18 | Before the 1940s , most food law was concerned with ensuring that people were not given short measure or food that was adulterated . |
| 19 | After Chernobyl the public was not given adequate warnings , and radiation fallout was underestimated by 40 times . |
| 20 | Macleod-Clark ( 1988 ) maintains , however , that even in current basic nursing programmes , students are not given adequate preparation to function in this way . |
| 21 | But allegations that patients were not given adequate care after they had been discharged from the unit were , on balance , in this investigation , unproven . |
| 22 | ‘ Trade unions have not given adequate support to black members when they are racially harassed and discriminated against . |
| 23 | The Commission has not given particular consideration to the use of music in the services of schools , colleges , hospitals or to every kind of institution . |
| 24 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
| 25 | The council also believes it was not given sound advice on the design and construction of the Dolphin Centre between 1978 and 1984 . |
| 26 | Following a decade of political and socio-medical pressure to retain elderly employees , industrial management had still not given significant attention to the effective utilization of older workers . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Some of the items are fine as they are but are not given unconditional approval because they should only be eaten in moderation . |
| 29 | The principal concern at the UNHCR is that Britain has not given voluntary repatriation time to work . |
| 30 | They 're angry that they 're paid only half that of their European colleagues and are n't given equal access to the best jobs . |