The phrase "accent was given" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing emphasis or focus placed on a particular aspect or detail in a statement or presentation.
Example: "In the meeting, accent was given to the importance of teamwork in achieving our goals."
Alternatives: "emphasis was placed" or "focus was directed".
Special accent is given to X-ray diffraction data addressing complexity and limitations on data analysis and interpretation for low atomic number, multiphase, textured and disordered samples.
Bald, dressed in black, and speaking in a semi-comical French accent, Barzaghi was given to preposterous utterances.
In school he was given the nickname "Yank," which stuck long after his broad American accent had faded.
So much of what we make of Shylock is determined by the age of the actor who portrays him, the clothes he wears, the accent he is given, the ferocity of his stare and the curvature of his nose, most of the decisions as to these being unwarranted by anything in the text.
Also on hand to endure Garland's charmless mood-swings is swishy Scottish accompanist Anthony Michael Cumpstyy, employing an in-and-out accent), who's given no last name -- perhaps because he's a composite of several accompanying pianists.
One is the cappuccino panna cotta — a loose pudding, really — that's given accents that cleverly touch on, and bring together, elements of cappuccino: chocolate-covered espresso beans, a salty chocolate and cinnamon shortbread cookie.
With the muscles in appropriate position and the reserve of air under proper control, accented notes in singing are given their full value not as startling percussive notes but in the manner of an accented note produced by a violinist who prepares his effect by the proper placing of his bow.
Back upstairs, a Batman called Chris is being given some accent advice by Powell.
Winslet is a strong presence, even if her Polish/American accent wavers distractingly, while Rogen is given precious little to do.
