Example sentences of "of [noun sg] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context the question of jobs being created by West Belfast people themselves inevitably arose , but there was a general lack of hope given the effect of political vetting on community economic initiatives . |
| 2 | Richard Hoggart , for example , notes in 1951 that the adult tutor is necessarily forced to face challenges to the self evident value of literature given the types of student involved . |
| 3 | His violent death was only a matter of course given the way he lived . |
| 4 | Flows may well be exogenous as they are likely to be known with a reasonable degree of uncertainty given the contractual nature of many savings policies . |
| 5 | Thus , while marriage was an experience common to women of all classes , there were substantial differences between middle and working class women in terms of first , their realistic expectations of marriage given the greater surplus of women amongst the middle class ( at least prior to World War I ) , second , their experiences of marriage breakdown , and third , their patterns of childbearing within marriage . |
| 6 | But it would be misleading to speak of separation given the religious foundations of his natural philosophy . |
| 7 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 8 | Cost may be seen as the ultimate control in choosing a microcomputer and certain ranges of microcomputer e.g. hard disk units may be out of reach given the budget of an individual school or school library although the new Amstrad PC1512 offers a 20mb hard disk for under 11,000 . |
| 9 | Greenpeace International science representative Jeremy Leggett has called the agreement " full of wonderful rhetoric and pitifully short of substance given the breadth and magnitude of the threats we face in the Arctic " . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , we should not lose sight of the fact that even such relatively immature communicators in terms of message evaluation — as the seven-year-olds are able to progress with a substantial degree of success given the opportunity to use their negotiating powers . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Scott clearly believes that the upper classes have a disproportionate amount of power given the tiny percentage of the population that they make up . |