The phrase "a given phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific phrase that has been previously mentioned or is understood in the context.
Example: "In the context of our discussion, let's analyze a given phrase to understand its meaning better."
Alternatives: "a specific phrase" or "the mentioned phrase".
There is some evidence in favour of this latter possibility as a result of experiments in which a speaker is asked to say a given phrase first slowly and then fast.
Cal Newport points out that "follow your passion" is a catchphrase that has only gotten going in the last 20 years, according to Google's Ngram viewer, a tool that shows how prominently a given phrase appears in English print over any period of time.
The musicians inhabited the music so fully that the performance took on a quality of appealing looseness: performers stood or sat, depending on the requirements of a given phrase; members of the chorus emerged as soloists, doubled as bell ringers, blended back into the ensemble.
Also, instead of assuming arbitrary word order scrambling, reordering models are used, according to which a given phrase may tend to be swapped with the left or right neighboring phrase or displaced from the neighbors, in the translation process.
Rather than picking out keywords within a query and finding the most relevant use of those keywords on the web, semantic search looks to understand the context of a given phrase before scouting for results.
In this paper, MFCC distance is used to compute the distance between each pair of spectra (one for partner A and one for partner B) for a given phrase (e.g., "red star necktie") so that we can obtain a distance matrix.
For example, add only a few underscores to the musical-like markings above the given phrase.
He has given phrases to the dictionary - Fergie Time, the hairdryer treatment, squeaky-bum time.
Initially, the musician plans to produce a given musical phrase, with a given vowel, given dynamics, given voice quality, and so forth.
In other words, there are no questions on the test that specifically ask students what a given word or phrase means out of context.
At which point Chomp will "recommend search terms and developers can bid for those keywords, setting a daily maximum spend as well as a maximum bid price for a given keyword or phrase", according the Chomp's release.
