Example sentences of "[noun pl] given [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are just carrying out their life in accordance with the rules given them , as all ‘ people ’ including Chewong do . |
| 2 | The tenant should consider deleting both clauses 11.1 and 11.2 though for the reasons given they could perhaps be tolerated if necessary . |
| 3 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given him , I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 4 | My Lords , for the reasons given I would however dismiss this appeal . |
| 5 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 6 | ‘ The value per share of the players comes to £2 — a useful figure for shareholders given our fully prudent accounting policy . ’ |
| 7 | Andy Reed 's lineout provision had created that chance and the Bath lock could prove a real dark horse for the Lions given his sterling deeds at restarts , a superb chopping of Mike Hall , a dive pass from a ruck and his arrival in the burn-out of Gavin Hastings ' break which required more last-gasp heroics , this time from Stuart Davies , to prevent a try . |
| 8 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 9 | Could you give guidance on the important matter of confidences given us by constituents ? |
| 10 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 11 | He found ( see also Batson and Best ( 1981 ) ) that animals given his discrimination training procedure showed an enhanced preference for the safe flavour ( the conditioned inhibitor ) . |
| 12 | Property might seem to be an unusual investment for pension funds given its volatile nature , but its inclusion can be defended on the grounds of past long-term returns that have been a good hedge against inflation . |
| 13 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 14 | Nor , for practical purposes , are they a constraint for most regulated public companies given their size and their controlled returns . |
| 15 | In some other countries , however , McDonald 's can probably achieve higher margins given its ‘ status ’ symbol or its near monopoly . |
| 16 | And why , when it has come to the crunch , have British governments of all political persuasions given it such unswerving support ? |
| 17 | Points out that even though no more than week long , seemed to last approx. 2000 years given their children with talent for running away from home/eating razor blades/climbing into boot of car to die/vomiting continuously/fighting with our children in between asthma bouts . |
| 18 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 19 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 20 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 21 | Many kinds of dispute arising out of industrial relations could find their way to the NIRC which , because of its status as a superior court of record and the powers given it by statute , was able to order the payment of fines and , if that or any other of its orders was disregarded , could imprison for contempt . |
| 22 | So I I I mean , but I do n't know whether to take it today or you know because she 'll get a lot of things given her today . |
| 23 | What starts as a kind of confusion between the rules accepted for sculpture in the round and those for drawing , ends with the realisation of a new art-form , sculpture in high relief , with conventions of its own : figures given their full bodily roundness but grouped in two-dimensional compositions against a flat background to which they are attached or , in developed pedimental sculpture , from which they are carved separate as complete statues . |
| 24 | Professor de Bono , there are well-established scales , particularly in the States , measuring long term stress and anxiety that we can use in rehabilitated patients to demonstrate that not only have the cardiologists given them years , but Doctor Bethell and his team have given them quality . |
| 25 | Both groups of workers set their wage rates given their ( rational ) expectations of the level of prices in the two periods covered by the wage contract . |
| 26 | Low stated that he had sent an order to Gen Loehr " to obey all orders given him " by the Yugoslav army . |
| 27 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 28 | If it is n't if you have n't got the two lengths given you 've got you 've got one length plus one angle . |
| 29 | Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia . |
| 30 | Have your publishers given you an advance ? ’ |