Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 2 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 3 | He has since given over his castle to the worship of Isis . |
| 4 | Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably . |
| 5 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 7 | The pidgin form used ( and it can exist with or without fixed English syntactic markers ) has naturally given way in the USA and Scandinavia to a greater interest and access to the sign language as used by deaf people . |
| 8 | This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers . |
| 9 | It has the best links between applications , and Spinnaker has obviously given some thought to the future needs of users by including OLE support . |
| 10 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 11 | The National Rivers Authority has only given its approval for half the planned graveyard . |
| 12 | The National Rivers Authority has only given its approval for half the planned graveyard . |
| 13 | The jury has sought assistance and , once it appears that the problem is one of fact , the judge has not inquired further but has merely given general guidance , as in the present case . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't it totally unsatisfactory that the Health Secretary has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than the parents of the children ? ’ |
| 15 | Dounreay has apparently given AECL a quotation and AECL is now considering it . |
| 16 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 17 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 18 | Nuttall has elsewhere given a mischievous account of an academic occasion in which a speaker insisted on asserting , ‘ It is a truth that the workers are oppressed . ’ |
| 19 | The fall in Third World export prices has thus given a boost to the Gross National Product ( GNP ) of the rich countries , to the tune of something like $100 billion a year . |
| 20 | Another expert in the work on dietary fibre , Dr Martin Eastwood of Edinburgh 's Western General Hospital , has generously given his advice and guidance , and Joyce Hughes , who lectures in nutrition at Croydon College , has compiled the F-Plan calorie and fibre charts . |
| 21 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 22 | It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory . |
| 23 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 24 | As it happens , America has just given both countries a reason for wondering whether that day is nigh . |
| 25 | Ms Neill told The Art Newspaper that in addition to the money , Mrs Heinz has just given Yale sixteen American nineteenth-century paintings by some of the period 's most renowned and valued artists . |
| 26 | English National Opera has just given the world premiere of Robin Holloway 's Clarissa , after the Richardson novel , while next month the Almeida Festival will introduce The Intelligence Park by the Irish composer Gerald Barry , one of the most distinctive and exciting of the younger Europeans . |
| 27 | please contact us at this number , this address , erm or attract the attention of the person who has just given you this flyer . |
| 28 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 29 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 30 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |