Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , over 600 people were able to take part in the inquiry , a remarkably high figure given the time required to prepare and attend and the intimidating feel of the proceedings . |
| 2 | An inquest jury has returned a verdict of accidental death on an eighty three year old woman given the wrong blood after an operation . |
| 3 | Some possible criteria for this area of work are listed below : The pupil can : I name , draw or sort 2-D shapes ; 2 name , draw or sort 2-D representations of 3-D shapes ; 3 visualize 3-D shapes represented in 2-D ; 4 construct accurately 2-D shapes with a ruler , protractor and compasses ; 5 find the area and perimeter of a rectangular shape ( whole units only ) ; 6 find the volume of a 3-D cuboid given a 2-D representation ; 7 compare and measure angles . |
| 4 | Can find the volume of a 3-D cuboid given a 2-D representation Most of the success rates for items exemplifying this criterion were around 40 per cent . |
| 5 | It is believed he thought he could no longer be charged over the under-age sex given the time that had elapsed . |
| 6 | The Location of Offices Bureau , set up in 1963 , was a public agency given the task of persuading the business community that office dispersal from London was to its advantage . |
| 7 | The state was independent of classes in determining how best to secure a social order given the circumstances of the time . |
| 8 | ( Alan Whicker , it seems , was first choice : Palin makes an interesting substitute given the wicked Python parody of Whicker Island : a place full of Alan Whickers endlessly interviewing each other . ) |
| 9 | The problem seemed to be that the job had not been openly offered on the market here in Britain , an impossible condition given the remit of the job . |
| 10 | Something to do with control of terrorism I surmised , but rather a pointless exercise given the haphazard nature of public transport in Peru . |
| 11 | But the new policy went ahead from the following autumn , 1956 , with the former resident tutors for Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire being redeployed as staff tutors and with Vivian Ramsbottom as Administrative Officer of the Joint Committee given a roving commission to encourage WEA branches in those counties now deprived of resident tutors . |
| 12 | English literature , as the art most readily available for education , is seen also as a means of encouraging goodness and strengthening the will , a central factor given the " vast importance to a nation of moral training " . |
| 13 | The Kurecolor Twin KC-1100 clearly has tremendous scope given the number of colours , interchangeable points and other variables that can be introduced . |
| 14 | Presumably Skinner has followed David Wulstan 's theories of 16th-century English church pitch , a rather dangerous procedure given the diffuse nature of Wulstan 's evidence for such a practice . |
| 15 | This is the approach followed in the present paper , where the emphasis is on allowing as much heterogeneity as possible and use the available disaggregated information given the nature of our data set . |
| 16 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
| 17 | And Pitt-Rivers was the first civil servant given the difficult job of persuading landowners that they ought to stop dealing with their property as they thought fit and hand it over to the control of a state agency . |
| 18 | There is no suggestion at present that any such standards should apply to the lifeboat services of the world , and it would be a virtually impossible task given the widely differing operating conditions , constitutions and tasks of the constituent members . |
| 19 | Yet it was also wealthy and powerfully organised , a strong weapon given a strong hand . |
| 20 | Our overall consumption of 26.6mpg is a fine result given the zest with which the 325i performs and its relatively short intermediate gearing , though the best return of 27.9mpg suggests that some feather-footed tactics are n't as effective as some might expect . |
| 21 | Since 1961 , it has happened 17 times in 31 seasons , or over half : a remarkable proportion given the economic imbalance that has developed already within English football during the last 31 years . |
| 22 | You will appreciate that this is a tight timescale given the range of information requested . |
| 23 | The Soil Association , British Organic Farmers and the Organic Growers Association would like to see organic farming given the type of financial assistance that conventional farming receives from the Government . |
| 24 | The result of selective competent design along these lines should be a system with optimal man-machine allocation given the technological state of the art and a comprehensive sensitivity to the feasibility of the human tasks . |
| 25 | While Fountains Abbey , the great Gothic ruin set in beautiful parkland , could naturally be transferred to the National Trust given a suitable endowment ( who would provide the millions needed for that ? ) , and Westminster Abbey 's Chapter House could be entrusted to the Church of England , it is uncertain whether some of the less glamourous archaeological sites could be hived off to local councils without risk to their future . |
| 26 | European president Ninian Eadie is continuing to manage ICL 's personal products , and now includes the company 's mid-range systems in his portfolio , which is considered a natural step given the movement towards client server systems . |
| 27 | KEVIN Ratcliffe , the ex-Wales skipper given a free transfer by Everton last season , last night joined Scottish Premier Division club Dundee . |
| 28 | In prose fiction , a more dialogic genre , various shifts of deictic centre occur ( that is , from character to character ) and we are more likely to see deictic terms verified intra-textually — for example , pronominal reference given a full cataphoric form . |
| 29 | It was a wailing plaintive sound given a febrile edge by the African rhythms of the drumming . |
| 30 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |