Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] [noun] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most frequent messages given to women are that tears are a sign of weakness , or instruments of manipulation . |
| 2 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 3 | Table 2.11 shows that inability to find a permanent job remained the most frequent reason given by young people for taking temporary work . |
| 4 | The decision … is to be determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates " . |
| 5 | The most common reasons given are that although the complaint is within scope , there is no realistic remedy , or there is no real evidence of the complaint being well-founded . |
| 6 | Comfort , spaciousness and equipment levels are amongst the most common reasons given by owners for liking their Clios . |
| 7 | Less than half ( 45% ) said that the off-farm job imposed limitations on the farm and by far the most common reason given was lack of time available to carry out the farm work . |
| 8 | Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973b ) found that the most common reason given for not getting in touch with a helping agency was that the overdose was seen as a way of relieving strain or going to sleep . |
| 9 | The rather weak reason given was the waste of the resources used in training these people . |
| 10 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 11 | How does he reconcile that with the rather desperate hints given by the Secretary of State in recent weeks as he vainly tried to rally his troops in the recent by-election ? |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't spoonfeed you here ’ was one of the less excusable reasons given for declining to help floundering students . |
| 13 | However , despite the generally positive reception given to the growth of community alternatives , concern has been expressed that the decline in residential provision means that young people with the most serious problems do not always receive appropriate help ( Hekken et al . , |
| 14 | Alternatively , assistance can be based on a sliding scale , with greater financial help given to key employees and the more junior workers given only some elements of the package . |
| 15 | It is , of course , possible to use the more restrictive bounds given by Walpole for the case of random orientation . |
| 16 | The same kind of point is illustrated by ( 19 ) , except here it is more likely that it is the notion of full luminescence which is explained in the more familiar terms given in the reformulation : In these examples , the speaker 's aim in reformulating an utterance is to enrich the hearer 's encyclopedic entries in order to ensure a greater understanding of the surrounding discourse or text . |
| 17 | Certainly the emphasis on mathematics in everyday contexts and the more central role given to practical mathematical tasks , such as measuring , in many of the newer schemes and syllabi should be helpful in all three cases . |
| 18 | It is not used in the more restricted sense given to the term " trade secrets " in Faccenda Chicken v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 but which has now been effectively viewed as being too narrow by two members of the Court of Appeal in Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 418 : see p82 below , we think the approach in Lansing Linde is to be preferred . |
| 19 | Contrast the more restricted remedy given to investors by section 5 . |
| 20 | Although we could n't speak the language , there were enough ‘ … issimos ’ attached to the adjectives to give a good idea of what the locals thought of the route , and the frequent appearance of numbers like VIII , VII+ , A4 and A3 on the topo seemed more in keeping with our previous experience than the more modest gradings given by Ron James . |
| 21 | The more lenient punishments given to women probably reflect a belief that female crime is a result of sickness , of some physical or emotional problem , rather than being rational action with specific , often financial , motives . |
| 22 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 23 | The perfumes and aromas exuded by their leaves and flowers on a warm sunny day give any garden a fourth dimension , and one of the charms of the Greek and Italian hillsides is the pungently aromatic fragrance given off by the herbs and shrubs . |
| 24 | The above areal interpolation methods are alike in that , other than the purely spatial information given by the boundaries , areas or centroids of the areal units involved , no extra information is used in interpolation . |
| 25 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 26 | For us , there is more emotion in the undemonstrative numbness , the ironically incomplete account given of self by New Order or the Mekons , than in the silky signals emanating from your Anita Bakers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The abortion legislation of 1967 is regularly defended against attempts to restrict the relatively liberal access given to women within that Act of Parliament . |
| 29 | The special conditions at Westminster are one part of the explanation of the relatively free rein given to counter-insurgency and covert activity . |
| 30 | So the Act provides for the appointment by the Prime Minister of a Tribunal with very limited powers to regulate the way in which Ministers use the very extensive powers given to them under the Act . |