Example sentences of "[noun] meted out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a complex tension in the Prioress 's Tale between the intense maternal sentimentality of the narrator 's treatment of the child martyr of whom she tells , the deeply symbolic nature of the tale , and the sublimated violence meted out to the " " cursed Jewes " " . |
| 2 | Nor did the general public have a very high regard of embalming , believing it to be another unnecessary luxury meted out to the corpses of the rich . |
| 3 | — ‘ in thought I see my past madness ’ ; these two cries are from the Arnaut Daniel speech ending Purgatorio XXVI , where the poet condemned to the circle of lust prays for the hearer 's consideration and looks forward to the release from the to tortures meted out to the lustful . |
| 4 | All these players can make me flinch and squirm ; but it 's nothing compared to the complicated torment meted out by the Barometer . |
| 5 | The battered husband returns to be told and " " reconforté " " , " comforted " , by the tale of the treatment meted out to the would-be seducer . |
| 6 | These ‘ shackles of Versailles ’ are notably in contrast with the treatment meted out by the USSR to Poland and the three Baltic republics in 1939–40 . |
| 7 | Together with ‘ fallen women ’ , unmarried mothers were more likely than other women to be employed on the unpleasant task of picking oakum , and were also more likely to be deprived of Sunday outings to church , despite the fact that previous behaviour was not supposed to influence the treatment meted out inside the workhouse . |
| 8 | It is clear that the director relishes the cruel revenge meted out to the crudely characterised Cornish villagers even more than the turned bookworm does , thus inciting the audience to condone the sorry sight . |
| 9 | Now doubts have been cast on the justice meted out to the Tottenham Three , and who knows what other cases will come to light ? |
| 10 | Though not , maybe in human form , but wherever the causal justice meted out by the Mind itself , may find its just fulfilment . |