Sentence examples for a given something from inspiring English sources

In Making Stories he is taking it as a given, something "deadeningly obvious" that we become blind to.

Psychological experiments have found that if youngsters believe that intelligence is a given — something they can't control — they are prone to give up.

("It felt like a given, something a woman's born to do, a natural ambition to see a reflection of me and you").

Father Michael Hilbert, a professor of canon law and the dean of faculty at the Gregorian, puts it this way: "For John Paul II, the faith was a given, something to celebrate and proclaim.

An alter ego is amazed, aghast perhaps – myself in the roaring 40s, when robust health was an assumption, a given, something you barely noticed because it was always there.

Today many Silicon Valley tech stars take the generally pro-business environment as a given, something they receive along with their tranches of capital or a diploma from Caltech.

Parenthood – motherhood – is a cultural given, something it's assumed that nearly all women aspire to.

"In a way, he has been given something of a poisoned chalice," says Prof Blanchflower.

Never say no until you've given something a go.

Once we have given something a name, we expect it to be that thing.

Just being alive is a gift, you were given something without any expectation of return.