The phrase "are given distinctive" is not correct as it lacks a clear subject and context.
It could be used in a sentence where something is being described as receiving distinct characteristics or features.
Example: "The new species are given distinctive markings that set them apart from others."
Alternatives: "are assigned unique" or "are provided with distinct".
Clans are reckoned by patrilineal descent, wives join their husbands' clans, and cattle are given distinctive clan brands.
The soloists, though not tied exclusively to specific roles, are given distinctive music: the soprano, who usually sings Mary's text, has a lilting, lyrical line most of the time, yet also moves high and low in the range, often in precarious leaps.
Thus, it is conceivable that a higher Hindu identification is associated with a cultural worldview in which psychological and physical experiences are given distinctive meanings and experienced as 'symptoms' (and here it may be relevant to note that these associations with a Hindu social identification were only found with the scales designed to capture the somatisation of well-being).
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Franz Grundheber, and Mark Delavan are giving distinctive performances of the baritone roles.
Corner houses were given distinctive designs and turrets.
With the exception of the Gungan city, which had an art nouveau-inspired visual, these locations would be given distinctive looks with some basis in the real world.
With music by George Kleinsinger, "Tubby the Tuba" was often compared with Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," in which a series of characters are given a distinctive musical motif.
The Christian emotions are given their distinctive character by their doctrinal content: The three cited prayers expressive of the distinctively Christian emotions all trade on propositional beliefs of the kind that the Christian community routinely teaches its members.
Examples of actual buildings are given in which distinctive amplitude-dependent damping characteristics of base-isolated structures, and nonlinear properties with stiffness degradation of a 9-story SRC building during strong excitations are evaluated.
In each case, however, they are given a peculiar and distinctive twist.
This lively novel about big-money thoroughbred racing features a colorful cast of jockeys, grooms, trainers and breeders, but its most memorable characters are the horses, who are given inner lives as distinctive as those of the humans around them.
