Example sentences of "in [noun sg] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolstoy attaches great importance to the change of wording in the signal of 23 May , referring to a " verbal directive " , as if this implied that on 13 May Macmillan had not just " advised " but had in effect given an order , which he was in no position to do . |
| 2 | Issue voting , which one might expect to have increased in significance given the decline in class voting , appears to remain extremely limited . |
| 3 | In Merkur Island Shipping Corporation v. Laughton the defendants were in fact given a copy of the charter of the trapped vessel before the application for an injunction , but the House of Lords held that they had the requisite knowledge independently of this . |
| 4 | And yet Lord Owen 's concession had in fact given the Serbs a lot : a way to prevent the return of Croats and Muslims to the areas captured by Serbs , and — unless checked by the UN — to keep the dream of a Greater Serbia alive . |
| 5 | In fact given the , what 's happened politically in what was Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Lands and Slovakia , erm and the financial pressures in Slovakia it 's not certain to me that the whole arrangement will go forward . |