Example sentences of "a [noun] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , if you 're a superstar , it 's no good admitting that you found a route given three grades easier than your latest creation anything but a path ! |
| 2 | He does not in practice refuse to entertain appeals solely because the decision of the local planning authority was based on a direction given by him . |
| 3 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 4 | This is a necessity given the ambiguous and errorful nature of speech . |
| 5 | The impetus behind this increase was probably provided by a decision given by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 which declared forced segregation unconstitutional in all public educational institutions . |
| 6 | The hearing will be adjourned pending the delivery of the High Court 's opinion , at which time it will be relisted and a decision given on the merits in the light of the High Court 's opinion on the law . |
| 7 | The Fenari clan seem 's not to have forgiven or forgotten this slight , for Molla Fenari 's sons later challenged a decision given by Molla Yegan as kadi of Bursa and caused him to be examined by a of the ulema . |
| 8 | He was living with his third wife , the ice goddess Veronica , in an LA mansion , surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime — a six-foot , hand-carved tiger given to him by Deng Xiaoping , a robe given to him by Elvis Presley . |
| 9 | Why not follow such a course given the controversy about the issue of district services being autonomous from mental hospitals ? |
| 10 | She found it in Medau Rhythmic Movement when attending a course given by Molly Braithwaite at St. Andrews in Scotland , and decided at once to study at the Medau Schule in Coburg . |
| 11 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 12 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 13 | A thank you letter received from St. Clare 's Hospice for a cheque given for two hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 14 | In the present context of the nine archetypes , a description given in a Gnostic text is particularly interesting . |
| 15 | Police are appealing for help from anyone who witnessed the incident or who recognises the attacker from a description given by the victim . |
| 16 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 17 | We got a donation given to us . |
| 18 | CDs are literally a certificate given by a deposit-taking institution like a bank or building society to acknowledge the existence of a deposit made . |
| 19 | Although in the Iliad the word dikē denotes a judgement given by a judge or an assertion by a party to a dispute of his rights , in the Odyssey it signifies ‘ right ’ or ‘ custom ’ . |
| 20 | In a judgement given on 14th May 1992 , the House of Lords allowed Johnson Matthey 's appeal that the £50 million payment in 1984 to its former subsidiary , Johnson Matthey Bankers Limited , was a revenue payment and eligible for tax relief . |
| 21 | In the inner court McMoran 's Lodging , built in 1590 , was the scene of a banquet given to James VI and Queen Anne . |
| 22 | The Queen had said at a banquet given by Emperor Akihito that the atrocities had caused a " deep gulf " between the two countries ; Netherlands figures indicated that some 21,320 of the 138,500 internees had died during their internment . |
| 23 | The analysis of local politics became instead an analysis of ‘ urban ’ politics , a change given academic respectability towards the end of the 1970s , when the Political Studies Association changed the name of its Local Politics Group to the Urban Politics Group . |
| 24 | Both words were used to push the Morrissey vision of men 's liberation ; not , as it may sound , a freedom given to the Penthouse reading hordes but a glimpse of Morrissey 's ideal world where gender barriers are entirely dispensed with . |
| 25 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 26 | A figure given common currency in the engineering industry is that the use of this equipment increases productivity by 300 per cent . |
| 27 | a vote given solely to one candidate at an election when the voter has the right to split his vote between two or more candidates ( hence the phrase ‘ to plump for ’ ) . |
| 28 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 29 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 30 | She sees the insights of Zen at work here , and commented that , if this is so , then it should be stated and some critique of Buddhism as a religion given . |