Example sentences of "[indef pn] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goma did not show the gratitude towards the Comrade expected from someone given the privilege of leaving Romania and he continued to agitate against the regime from Paris . |
| 2 | It was a breezy afternoon at the Crystal Palace , if memory serves and our boys recruited the aid of the elements in a first half in which no quarter was asked and none given . ’ |
| 3 | / A leading from above , a something given ’ , and ‘ a Man from some far region sent ’ . |
| 4 | 3. something given in return ; punishment or reward . |
| 5 | Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ We went up into a dining-room about as large as your blue room , where we had something given us to eat , and tea and coffee . ’ |
| 6 | It emphasises the fact that class is not something given in economic antagonisms which can be expressed straightforwardly in political formations . |
| 7 | So , there 's something given , that entitles feedback I was giving you then , some people referred to it as this . |
| 8 | This whole idea of a subsistence economy is something I 'm not really , I 'm not really sure about it because erm what , what would exactly , you 're saying that if everybody was the same then erm then you 're somehow necessarily going to be producing at a subsistence level so erm so er and so it 's , so if you can only extract surplus by effectively taking it off something given to others . |
| 9 | Relativism asserts the view that everything given — this word being taken in the widest possible sense — can be grasped only in perspectives ; but this proposition itself is supposed to be valid absolutely , not just for one perspective . |
| 10 | You know , they should get everything given to them should n't they , nurses ? |
| 11 | It was extremely difficult to draw such lines with clarity in practice , yet , at another level , the distinction was an important one given the existence of two powerful corporations ( the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians ) and of their vested interests . |
| 12 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 13 | Dismissing the taxpayers ' appeals , Lord Justice Nourse said that the ordinary meaning of ‘ release ’ comprehended both a release given for full consideration and one given gratuitously , or for less than full consideration , and there was no warrant for putting the limitation , as contended by the tax-payers , on the word ‘ releases ’ in s 287(1) . |
| 14 | The definition of socialism which I can grasp most readily , because it is so simple , is the one given by George Bernard Shaw in 1928 : ‘ Socialism is an opinion as to how the income of the country should be distributed . ’ |
| 15 | I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country . |
| 16 | Sabrina asked , holding up the one given to her by the stationmaster . |
| 17 | One of the biggest and best Fourth of July parties in London , was surely the one given by Mr Alecko Papamarkou , at Claridge 's . |
| 18 | Perhaps the answer is as simple as the one given by some contemporary writers . |
| 19 | Mr. Richard 's argument would , we accept , be formidable indeed had the implied undertaking with which we are concerned been one given in the usual way in civil proceedings . |
| 20 | ) . Her version of the truck reversing problem is similar to the one given by Kong and Kosko ; see Kosko ( 1992 ) , although her solution is different . |
| 21 | The law of transformation from the ( 1,2,3 ) coordinate system to the ( 1 " , 2 " , 3 " ) is the one given above in Equation ( 2.9 ) . |
| 22 | The best lead we have here is the one given by his wife . |
| 23 | That is a much higher figure than the one given by the Secretary of State . |
| 24 | Unless there is a special compassionate feature , such as the one given by the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , we need to return them home before they have begun to establish themselves here , making their eventual removal more difficult for us and even more unwelcome for them . |
| 25 | The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd . |
| 26 | The question was often a difficult and delicate one given radically different perceptions of what was necessary or right in the changed circumstances , the different styles of polytechnic directors and their senior staffs , different approaches to organizational development . |
| 27 | ‘ Would n't have one given , ’ I said firmly . |
| 28 | So you can immediately see that it would be quite wrong to make the mistake that people sometimes do make and think that the second model of the mind is really just the first one given new terms and that the ego is equivalent to the conscious . |
| 29 | Sighvat 's Knútsdrápa implies that he had a son there at the time of the joint attack by Olaf and Anund , possibly the one given to Thorkell in 1023 . |
| 30 | Second , is the period for which the seller promises to remedy defects a reasonable one given the nature of the goods and any other relevant factors under the contract ? |