Example sentences of "has given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Jonathan Mann , former director of the WHO Global AIDS Programme , has given his backing to ACET by joining Dr Everett Koop the former US Surgeon General , as an International Adviser . |
| 2 | ‘ When you 've done research on a country for years , you also get a sense of which groups have vested interests or political agendas , who can be trusted and who has given us reliable information , ’ said Smart . |
| 3 | Her course teacher has given her a reading list , and the library staff are good at helping students with all sorts of interests . |
| 4 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 7 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 8 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 9 | But now that Atholl has given way and condescended to meet the people — ‘ He is a diplomat , ’ said John Stewart . |
| 10 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 11 | A recent DSS Housing Benefit/Community Charge Benefit circular has given guidance about the treatment of income which is paid at intervals other than one week . |
| 12 | Increased usage of the VSOE Pullman train for repeat itinerary charter work on days when it is not required for the Folkestone run , has given prospective passengers some further options . |
| 13 | Massine has given a translation into choreographic terms of a hundred musical features of the Symphony . |
| 14 | Many more recent innovations in costume have led to today 's all-over leotard and tights which has not only given dancers complete freedom of movement but has given choreographers freedom to design as they will without constricting rules and conventions . |
| 15 | It will appear mechanical , when plucked out of the huge and vital narrative flow , that Dostoevsky has given him ‘ a sickly dark yellow complexion ’ as a mark of his belonging to Petersburg . |
| 16 | He has remarked , ‘ No other phase of my academic life has given me so much pleasure and instruction . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | David Lodge , whose experience as novelist , critic , and professor of English has given him many insights into the situation I am describing , provides in his recent novel Nice Work , a neat instance of the gap between students and teacher . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Mr Shamir has given no sign of softening his opposition to any contact with the PLO , or with Palestinians from outside , including those deported for activities hostile to Israel . |
| 21 | Henning Albrechsten says : ‘ Modern information technology has given people in remote regions the opportunity to overcome their worst handicap ; their distance from the centres of learning and development . ’ |
| 22 | ALTHOUGH the British government would deny ‘ grooming ’ a candidate from within the ranks of its Hong Kong civil service for the job of chief executive after transition in 1997 , it has given John Chan , 46 , a series of fast-track official posts which make him a credible contender for the job . |
| 23 | And while France formally supports the need for reform , it has given considerable support to General Aoun . |
| 24 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 25 | THE WELSH Rugby Union 's inability to interpret a communique from their French counterparts has given Neath a stay of execution following their pitch walk-off in France two months ago . |
| 26 | Ravi Shankar has given his audience a work of undeniable beauty , but whether this captivating setting has rendered the tale equally ‘ meaningful ’ is another question entirely . |
| 27 | It is the first time that Prince Charles has given direct financial help to a run-down urban area , and the Duchy has been granted a 125-year lease on the 0.6 acre site . |
| 28 | Thatchergate has given us an idea . |
| 29 | The lecturer , Martin Wood , counts equally successful those students of the courses he has given since 1984 , at Leith 's School of Food and Wine in London , who subsequently decided not to open restaurants . |
| 30 | This has given the East Germans the best standard of living in East Europe . |