Example sentences of "[adj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 2 | However , the problems facing peasant producers are not only economic but also political given the control traditionally exercised by the PRI . |
| 3 | The Albanian leader could express his shock at the gangsterish methods of Gheorghiu-Dej in the late 1940s without for one moment admitting to himself , let alone to his readers , that he was even remotely hypocritical given his own tendency to resort to rubbing out rivals personally ( including shooting his prime minister and long-term comrade-in-arms , Mehmet Shehu , in 1981 ) . |
| 4 | The latter is of interest only in that he still manages to stay alive given the muck he is reported to pour daily into his ailing system . |
| 5 | The lack of any programme for changing the industry is all the more striking given the obstacles that the likes of John Davis persistently put in their way . |
| 6 | Associated British Ports , which owns Southampton , Hull and Cardiff , believes that a Channel Tunnel strategy is unnecessary given the overall prospects for growth of trade within and beyond Europe . |
| 7 | Opposing proposals to import a further 5 million tonnes of coal , he presented evidence that this was both unnecessary given the trends of productivity and costs within British Coal , and damaging to long-term energy policy since it would lead to pit closures and the sterilization of up to 150 million tonnes of coal reserves . |
| 8 | At that point , we believed that the Bill would be an irrelevance and unnecessary given that prisoners can already be charged with a wide range of criminal offences , including offences under the Public Order Act 1986 . |
| 9 | The aim of Sussexdown is to enable the residents to enjoy as full , varied and independent a life as is possible given their disabilities . |
| 10 | The aim of Sussexdown is to enable the residents to enjoy as full , varied and independent a life as is possible given their disabilities . |
| 11 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 12 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |
| 13 | An election made after the two-year statutory time limit , but as soon as possible given the circumstances , will be accepted if it is made because a relevant and uncorrected Revenue error has resulted in the partners or their agent being misled about whether the requirements of the legislation have been met . |
| 14 | A total synthesis is not possible given the rate at which new data and techniques are being produced ; the principal difficulty remains the quantity of material that was excavated in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England . |
| 15 | Third is the idea of providing care in as normal i.e. non-institutional setting as is possible given the needs of clients . |
| 16 | ‘ It is now too late to make fresh representations ’ but ‘ officers will be considering the need for a review as early as possible given the continuously changing circumstances and national planning context ’ . |
| 17 | Despite efforts by staff to integrate different issues as far as an individual is concerned this has not always been possible given the present working practice , locations and procedures . |
| 18 | Another consequence of the boom in opposition to nuclear weapons was the eclipse of the campaign against nuclear power , which was a bit odd given that the whole of 1982 was a run up to the inquiry , which begins later this month , into the plans to build Britain 's first pressurised-water reactor . |
| 19 | Amdahl claims 60 existing customers of UTS on 5995s , and says it has n't lost a single customer to downsizing — strange given that it is talking up its Sparc systems as rightsizing tools . |
| 20 | All of the Spectrum keys are used by the program , most with two functions , a fact that is fairly strange given the presence of the menu panel on the tablet . |
| 21 | This stress on authority and hierarchy is , Eccleshall contends , understandable given that ‘ from Restoration absolutism to the Thatcherite preoccupation with law and order Conservatives have always been fearful of social indiscipline ’ . |
| 22 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 23 | Although the increase was understandable given the Government 's vacillation , it made ministers even less willing to intervene . |
| 24 | This is understandable given the multitude of pressures and changes that characterise the teachers ’ working environment . |
| 25 | Iago 's contempt for the new breed of Renaissance soldier , necessarily more technical given the increasingly scientific development of warfare in the sixteenth century , may be intended to show that his complaint is the predictable and irrelevant grumble of the old-fashioned soldier made obsolete by new technology . |
| 26 | In the surgical specialties the problem of allocating time to research is particularly acute given the long apprenticeship necessary to learn technical skills . |
| 27 | This is particularly clear given that the result was also obtained using nonsense syllables rather than meaningful words ( Kleinsmith & Kaplan , 1964 ) . |
| 28 | This is perhaps possible in a sentence like : ( 21 ) This Canadian is French given the existence of dual nationality ( if , that is , any speaker should ever wish to make an assignment of one property in a sentence where the subject is first identified by a competing property of the same type ) . |
| 29 | It would be a brave man who would claim that these ideas were unrealistic given the availability of cheap computer power . |
| 30 | An aggregate approach may not be too unrealistic given that assessments of the returns on overseas bond and equity investments are likely to be dominated by exchange rate expectations . |