Example sentences of "[vb -s] given the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has given the present city its innumerable trees , its many green spaces , and its fine views and prospects . |
| 2 | Though not strictly a member of the cabinet , Mr Ozawa has given the prime minister considerable support and has in effect run the government 's day-to-day business . |
| 3 | This glaciation has given the Outer Hebrides a complex relief of rock knobs , and small , peat- or water-filled hollows , and intersecting linear grooves or valleys often occupied by lochs and lochans . |
| 4 | The British government has given the clearest signals yet that it intends to authorise the start-up of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) at Sellafield . |
| 5 | The secretary of state has given the Joint Consultants Committee ( JCC ) an assurance that the Department of Health will deal firmly with specific cases of abuse that are notified to the department , and , indeed , certain trusts have already been made to reverse inappropriate appointments . |
| 6 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 7 | An anglophile university professor who used his modest means to amass 322 British and continental drawings has given the entire lot to the National Gallery . |
| 8 | Shelly Whitney , Dawn Millar and Alex Block from Carleton say , ‘ Studying at the Bradford Management Centre has been an invaluable experience and has given the Canadian ‘ Group of Seven ’ a new perspective on International Business . |
| 9 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 10 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 11 | Taking votes mainly from one of the existing parties , it has given the other i.e the Tories virtually a clear run . |
| 12 | WIGAN 'S Martin Dermott has given the new season the ‘ Big E ’ — by dislocating his elbow just weeks before kick off . |
| 13 | By the 11th Summerchild has given the new formation a temporary designation , which will prove to be permanent , and has provided a wealth of possible addresses , colleagues and procedures . |
| 14 | ‘ Faced with the myriad opportunities for the concealment of fraudulent activities which companies and trusts provide , Parliament has given the Serious Fraud Office the power to call upon a suspected person to come into the open , and to disclose information which may incriminate him . |
| 15 | The firm must identify the bank concerned ; ( 5 ) Before a firm undertakes margined transactions through an intermediate broker who is neither an authorised person nor an overseas person whose regulatory system requires segregation of client money ; ( 6 ) ( In most cases ) where the firm wishes to contract out of the client money regulations and is entitled to do so ; ( 7 ) If the firm wishes to hold client money of a private customer in a free money bank account outside the UK it must identify the country concerned and state whether the bank concerned has given the required acknowledgement as to client money status and that , if such acknowledgement had not been given , client money held with that bank might not be protected as effectively as in the UK . |
| 16 | For the 16 valve GTi , Rover has given the 1.4 litre K-series engine multi-point fuel injection and , despite the addition of a standard catalyst , it delivers 104 bhp and 94lb of torque at 5,000 rpm . |
| 17 | The company , which sold a record 508 cattle through its Electronic Auctions Systems Europe franchise on Thursday , has given the necessary six months notice to the franchise-holding ANM Group , Aberdeen . |
| 18 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 19 | R. L. Poole has given the following hypothetical example to illustrate this : |
| 20 | The international order the British presided over had no proper place for Germany , but that which the United States brought into being after 1945 has given the Federal Republic a privileged if somewhat constrained position . |
| 21 | The international order the British presided over had no proper place for Germany , but that which the United States brought into being after 1945 has given the Federal Republic a privileged if somewhat constrained position . |
| 22 | This restrained aloofness has had its drawbacks : it has given the bellicose idealists of the Left freedom to ride roughshod with impunity over institutions which have hitherto maintained our nation as civilised and admirable . |
| 23 | The present chapter has given the level-of-analysis problem a new dimension . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Howard has given the green light for a windfarm development on the edge of the Lake District National Park . |
| 25 | Benedict , a Californian now based in Hertford , has given the 405 low-volume side-tanks to make the boat less likely to invert and easier to right . |
| 26 | Some Ministers believe the combination of Chris Patten , the chairman , and John Major has given the wrong signals : ‘ Patten and Major are sweet and sweet , whereas what this campaign needs is sweet and sour . ’ |
| 27 | The way that the media has conducted a campaign using fear , and attitudes to so called safe sex , has given the wrong sort of messages to our young people . |
| 28 | Bill Clinton was born in the town of Hope and that is what he has given the American people . |
| 29 | Marks & Spencer has , we are sure , nothing but the best of intentions for Brooks Brothers , which is why it has given the American clothier the benefit of its most successful ideas . |
| 30 | The Cancer Research Campaign , which has given the seven-strong team a £150,000 grant , is delighted . |