Example sentences of "[adj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 2 | However , the problems facing peasant producers are not only economic but also political given the control traditionally exercised by the PRI . |
| 3 | The Albanian leader could express his shock at the gangsterish methods of Gheorghiu-Dej in the late 1940s without for one moment admitting to himself , let alone to his readers , that he was even remotely hypocritical given his own tendency to resort to rubbing out rivals personally ( including shooting his prime minister and long-term comrade-in-arms , Mehmet Shehu , in 1981 ) . |
| 4 | The latter is of interest only in that he still manages to stay alive given the muck he is reported to pour daily into his ailing system . |
| 5 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 6 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 7 | The answer which Marx gave to this problem resembles that given later by Durkheim . |
| 8 | Even so , the advice is similar in principle to that given for a westward flight . |
| 9 | The advice is the same as that given for westward flights — though , of course , whether people living in the new time zone are awake or sleeping will differ . |
| 10 | The welfare hand-out that pains critics most is that given to poor , unmarried mothers : Aid to Families with Dependent Children ( AFDC ) . |
| 11 | The atomic theory suggests a different picture of the nature of matter , and a different form of explanation from that given by hylemorphism . |
| 12 | There is no good reason for it other than that given by Bertrand Russell in that more troubled decade : ‘ The world in which we are now living would have seemed , before 1945 , too horrible to be endured . |
| 13 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 14 | Blake 's own description of his work matches that given many years later by Peter Wright in his book Spycatcher ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I would be prepared to write a leader on this project , but I would find it difficult to take the opposing point of view to that given in those two leaders . |
| 16 | The evidence was overwhelming , but none so precise and clear as that given by a Mr Bryant and his teenage daughter . |
| 17 | All subjects then received A-shock pairings followed by a test session assessing the generalization of conditioned suppression to both B and C. Suppression on this test was not profound but , as Fig 5.7 shows , each group showed more suppression to the stimulus that had received stage-one training equivalent to that given for A. |
| 18 | What determined the suppression shown to a test stimulus was whether or not its stage-one treatment matched that given to stimulus A. |
| 19 | In addition , farmers with an agreed development plan in the LFA receive a ‘ guidance premium ’ , which is not higher than that given outside the LFA in the UK ( though it could be one third higher under the Directive ) . |
| 20 | The fit is reasonable over most of the area and , as might be expected , is broadly similar to that given by the Shotgun model . |
| 21 | I could not restrain myself from hastening to view one of those Druid circles , of which there are so many in the Isle of Lewis ; that given in the small vignette is the first one I reached . |
| 22 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 23 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 24 | It is only the form of the metric in the interaction region that needs to be modified to that given in this section . |
| 25 | The result , however , and the second contradiction , was that given this freedom local authorities behaved in a very similar fashion to each other . |
| 26 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 27 | The system would be configured so that the file database could be interrogated against a wide variety of search parameters ( eg officer name , file reference , file titles , etc ) , and the basic structure of the index entries reflected that given in the FAOR functional descriptions . |
| 28 | A comparison of this account with that given by des Forges and Harber indicates very little change in status since 1938 . |
| 29 | This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers . |
| 30 | The conventional method of recording orchestras was to place microphones throughout the ensemble ; Fine contended that given a hall with excellent acoustic properties , a single ultra-sensitive microphone should be capable of capturing the sound of a symphony orchestra with unprecedented clarity , balance and definition . |