The phrase "a given body" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a specific body or entity that has been previously mentioned or is understood in the discussion.
Example: "In physics, the laws of motion apply to a given body regardless of its mass."
Alternatives: "a specific entity" or "a particular object".
Knowledge spaces are combinatorial models for encoding the conceptual organization of a given body of knowledge.
We also find that for a given body geometry, there is a specific flagellar geometry that minimizes the critical flexibility number at which buckling occurs.
To determine the proportion of youth within a given body mass index (BMI) obesity category with excess adiposity using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA).
The plan continued to allow states to define proficiency, as either mastery of a given body of knowledge or as a measure of a child's performance relative to the average of others taking the test.
That is, we will gravitate toward favored filmmakers, with plenty of room for argument about choices within a given body of work — why "Letters From Iwo Jima" and not "Changeling"?
In "The Tree of Life," the shots are not quite continuous — that is, they don't match up in the manner of classical shooting and editing, in which a given body movement is carried over from one shot to the next.
Thermodynamic entropy is a numerical measure that can be assigned to a given body by experiment; unless disorder can be defined with equal precision, the relation between the two remains too vague to serve as a basis for deduction.
Statements ascribing an inductive probability to a hypothesis are, in Carnap's view, analytic, because they merely formulate the strength of the support bestowed upon a hypothesis by a given body of evidence.
Different criteria of neutrality are available and they yield different results when applied to a given body of work.
The resulting "visualization software" can reproduce how an oil plume in a given body of water will spread.
This can lead to disagreement about which hypotheses are refuted or supported by a given body of evidence.
