Example sentences of "have given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 2 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 3 | Massine has given a translation into choreographic terms of a hundred musical features of the Symphony . |
| 4 | But Norris has given a further and suggestive explanation : ‘ The possession of a written Constitution whose principles are yet open to all manner of far-reaching judicial review … gives a political edge to questions of textual and interpretative theory that they do not have in the British cultural context . ’ |
| 5 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 6 | Morgan Grampian has given a court undertaking not to publish the information . |
| 7 | Accommodating the exiled Kuwaitis has given a boost to the depressed property market , especially in the Eastern Province , where rents have tripled in the past year . |
| 8 | The American dramatist David Mamet has given a far more penetrating and disturbing account of salesmen on the make in Glengarry Glen Ross , and I can remember at least two other British plays on virtually the same theme . |
| 9 | ‘ It was described by Lord Provost Black in 1845 as a school which has conferred a lustre upon our city and which has given a tone to the manners and intellect of all its inhabitants . |
| 10 | ERNEST Saunders , jailed for his part in the Guinness affair , has given a lecture to business students in which he spoke about ethics in management . |
| 11 | I hope this publication has given a starting point and that you will be stimulated to try out this last great contribution from the founder of Homœopathy . |
| 12 | Wurlitzer has given a geographical explanation of great fluidity . |
| 13 | Szekeres ( 1972 ) has indicated how to integrate this equation using Riemann 's method , and has given a general solution expressed as a line integral involving a Legendre function of order -½ . |
| 14 | Julian 's answer is that when Titius sues for the legacy he can be opposed with an exceptio doli unless he has given a guarantee that he will manumit Stichus . |
| 15 | The Salman Rushdie affair has given a whole new meaning to both anti-racist and black community politics . |
| 16 | BILL CLINTON has given a chilling warning that Britain 's cosy relationship with the United States is heading for the big freeze when he takes over the White House . |
| 17 | A recent finding in the New South Wales Supreme Court has given a fillip to accountancy practices across Australia . |
| 18 | He has given a vivid portrayal of Jesus as the Messiah ; the new Moses ; the representative of God . |
| 19 | With his ITV show Through The Keyhole he has given a guided tour of 200 homes of the rich and famous , exposing to public view everything from Viscount Weymouth 's erotic murals to Bernard Manning 's fish tank . |
| 20 | In addition — and I will begin with this point — linguistics has given a special status to the kind of binary opposition masculine/feminine exemplifies , and of which deconstructionists , including feminists , have been critical . |
| 21 | The Further Education Unit , a curriculum review and development unit established in 1977 to make possible a more co-ordinated and cohesive approach to curriculum development in further education , has given a commendable priority to special educational needs . |
| 22 | Bradford , in particular , has given a lead on this and there is ample evidence to show how the department 's profile was raised considerably and more positively . |
| 23 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 24 | The public outcry against young offenders has given a bumpy ride to the seven-month-old Criminal Justice Act . |
| 25 | This work has given a close insight into problems of pollution , congestion , intense company group pressure , sexism and racism . |
| 26 | The Ministero dei Beni culturali has given a firm ‘ no ’ to the latest plans from the office of architect Renzo Piano , co-designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris , for the restoration of the Palladian Basilica complex in Vicenza . |
| 27 | The Soviet-American joint venture ‘ 21st-Century Technologies ’ has given a million roubles and a truckful of restoration materials has arrived in Moscow , courtesy of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt . |
| 28 | These are : ( a ) That the officer can not discover the suspect 's name or believes he has given a false name . |
| 29 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 30 | Middleton ( 1987 ) has given a useful account of how these different approaches have informed work on gender inequality in education . |