Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] given [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , for practical purposes , are they a constraint for most regulated public companies given their size and their controlled returns . |
| 2 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 3 | And why , when it has come to the crunch , have British governments of all political persuasions given it such unswerving support ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are primarily those about animal welfare ; what makes creatures healthy ones given what we strive for in our treatment of them as pets , as a food source , in zoos , or conserved in the wild . |
| 6 | It was felt that the Catholic church is an inappropriate organisation to be controlling ACE schemes given its lack of democratic structures . |
| 7 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 8 | One typical story recalled the fate of the apocryphal Lupescu , who was the alleged inventor of several scurrilous stories with the Comrade as their butt and who was supposed to supplement his income with hard currency or Western cigarettes given him by his appreciative audience . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |