Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] given the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has to be the worst year of my career given the expectations I had when it started . |
| 2 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 3 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 4 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 5 | Most systems also have some method of assigning scores which rank competing hypotheses according to how well they match the constraints , or according to their probability given the evidence . |
| 6 | Financing buyouts has , however , retained its popularity given the greater security involved in such a deal . |
| 7 | And doubts were expressed as to its value given the conceded fact that only a small dent was likely to be made in the pigeon population . |
| 8 | Popularly known as the Parliamentary Ombudsman , Sir Anthony has been surprisingly open about his work given the secrecy that pervades Whitehall . |
| 9 | Roughly , for he list given the scale is : a few nanometres , a few microns , a few millimetres , tens of millimetres , a tenth of a metre , several kilometres . |
| 10 | Alt is wisely tentative in his conclusions given the nature of the available data but he is prepared to argue that there is " no evidence that any British Government in the period [ since 1964 ] … believed it could " steal " an election by mortgaging the future in the interest of an economically better present " . |
| 11 | Erm and and a point was raised in our our evidence given the existing overshoot of structure plan figures , erm the the the county county wide the figures have overshot the agreed structure plan figures , that should focus attention surely on on the need to more closely control the release of the committed land erm er that is currently without planning permission , through the development control process . |