Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst my sisters wiped up , from an early age I was given the task of transporting the clean china and utensils from the lid of the copper ( there was no draining board ) to the kitchen table for one of the adults to put away . |
| 2 | The likelihood of the model given by equations ( 3.36 ) may be compared with the likelihood of an unrestricted model which is given by : where , is a random error which is serially uncorrelated with mean zero . |
| 3 | This , if not mere coincidence , may be some strange legacy , for our heroine is — you 'd never have guessed this one — really an aristocratic heiress who was given at birth to a gypsy family . |
| 4 | She was an untrained actress who was given an enormous task of carrying so many episodes in the early days . ’ |
| 5 | The key to the whole of their social , economic , political and religious institutions is the concept of the covenant : an all-embracing agreement which was given by God at Mount Sinai . |