Example sentences of "an [noun] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 2 | John Redding , 21 , picked up a trophy donated by former Teesside County Borough engineer Jim Radcliffe , while 18-year-old John McGuckin received an award given by Garth Drabble , retired county surveyor and engineer . |
| 3 | It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country . |
| 4 | The account that follows is a mixture of indisputable facts and local traditions , with an indication given of which are which , as often as possible . |
| 5 | His father , Robert Robinson , 58 , of Sidney Street , Saltcoats , claimed that an injection given to his son in hospital by a senior doctor killed him and if he had been sent to the neurosurgery unit at the Southern General in Glasgow he would have still been alive . |
| 6 | In an interview given soon after the publication of his first novel , he insisted : |
| 7 | Hoping to lay to rest the hare started by an interview given to the Wall Street Journal by a top Siemens AG staffer , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig said at the opening of the Cebit Hannover Fair yesterday that his company had no plans for a strategic link with another computer company . |
| 8 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 9 | If we take the Prime Minister 's words at face value — that the Conserservative party will not raise the rate of VAT — does the hon. Gentleman recall an interview given recently by the Chief Secretary , when he was asked about extending coverage of VAT to transport fares ? |
| 10 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 11 | This recommendation was in apparent contradiction to an interview given by Saddam Hussein broadcast on French television on July 9 , in which he stated that he hoped that the first free and democratic presidential elections in the country 's history would take place later in the year and that he would stand for re-election alongside other candidates . |
| 12 | Carlos Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez , Vice-President of the Council of State and a politburo member , in an interview given to Radio Havana on Oct. 23 , denied rumours that Risquet and another prominent politburo member , Juan Almeida Bosque , had differences with President Fidel Castro . |
| 13 | However , Brahim Ghali , a member of the Polisario Executive Committee , had stated in an interview given to the Madrid newspaper El País of Oct. 22 , 1990 , that if the Moroccan government decided not to agree to the holding of the referendum , or tried to interfere in the running of it , then the armed struggle would be renewed on all fronts . |
| 14 | The allegation of Bush 's support for the operation was supported by an interview given on Sept. 24 by Richard V. Secord , the chief logistical officer for the Iran-contra affair , to support the publication of his memoirs . |
| 15 | Serrano Suñer , who accompanied Franco on the trip , denies that there was any delay : " Good God , no ! " he said , in an interview given in 1988 . |
| 16 | ‘ The Green stock par excellence ’ — an accolade given recently by a City analyst to the Rentokil Group plc . |
| 17 | The matter had gone quiet since summer 1991 , but is due now to burst forth again , this time with the real substance of the evidence from all parties , as a consequence of an opinion given 3 December last by Judge Carol Huff in the New York Supreme Court and due to be confirmed in a Court Order last month . |
| 18 | So it was on Tuesday the twenty-third of April , 1968 , an occasion given a special fin de siècle luminosity by the knowledge that , for many of us , it was the last such event in our Oxford careers . |
| 19 | Token economy was used whenever Chris obeyed an instruction given in a situation ( such as playing by himself ) where he was inclined to have a tantrum rather than comply . |
| 20 | Thirty of the first 40 titles are mono ( contrary to the original Savoy notes provided with six of these ) , and all are marked ‘ AAD ’ — surely an eccentricity given the work that has been done on the original signal ? |
| 21 | By and large , capital had come to terms with war — an alliance given prominence in 1916 by press agitation for Allied plans to translate the wartime economic blockade of Germany into a post-war policy of concerted discrimination against German exports — the so-called ‘ War After the War . |
| 22 | Similarly in 69 , which has eleven instances of Thou and none of I , the analysis of the Friend 's misbehaviour focuses on the discrepancy between his outward beauty ( ‘ thy fair flower ’ ) and his mind and action ( ‘ the rank smell of weeds ’ ) , an inconsistency given more biting expression by the double pun in the couplet : ‘ But why thy odour matcheth not thy show , /The soil is this — that thou dost common grow . ’ |
| 23 | One of the major weaknesses in Simmel 's analysis is a possible interiorization of the radical subject-object dichotomy he is describing , in particular a leaning , on occasion , towards an essentialist given self . |
| 24 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 25 | In an affidavit given after his arrest , Dlamini alleged that Mbatha , also known as ‘ Johannes ’ , had told him : ‘ Look , I 've been bought by Winnie Mandela and I must go and shoot Dr Asvat dead . ’ |
| 26 | But it echoes an example given us by the Consumer Credit Association ( an amalgamation of the Retail Credit Federation and National Personal Finance Association , representing some 900 companies involved in personal loans and retail credit ) . |
| 27 | An example given by de Bono is the problem of a factory effluent that pollutes the river on the bank of which the factory stands . |
| 28 | Experiments using the simulation model are thus made possible ; an example given earlier showed how a planner could modify a river-basin simulation model to allow for the expansion of an urban area . |
| 29 | Brig Cordy-Simpson said the airlift was being initiated on the basis of an agreement in principle for such an operation given by the leader of the Bosnian Serbs , Radovan Karadzic , in New York on Sunday . |
| 30 | The political turn was signalled publicly in an address given by Bukharin at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of the death of Lenin on 21 January 1929 . |