Example sentences of "given [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | And indeed , Tarpy and McIntosh ( 1977 ) , using a procedure likely to be more sensitive ( involving , among other things , a weaker US and prolonged testing ) , were able to demonstrate substantial latent inhibition in rats given exposure to a variety of flavours before conditioning . |
2 | Kalat and Rozin ( 1973 ) suggested that subjects given exposure to a novel flavour are capable of learning that the flavour predicts no aversive consequence , that the taste is ‘ safe ’ . |
3 | But Dad had always given responsibility to Charles , shared his worries and fears with Charles … well , that was fine , as long as she was allowed her fair say as well . |
4 | With several modifications , such varied anthropologists as D. Forde [ 1948 ] , M. Fortes ] 1953 ] , and M. Sahlins [ 1961 ] have given support to the view that segmentary systems , the modern anthropological equivalent of Morgan 's ‘ gentile systems ’ , seem to occur in societies with similar technologies and they are by and large of the type postulated in The Origin . |
5 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
6 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
7 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
8 | He is scathing in his attacks on those French politicians , journalists and writers who " have collaborated in word and deed with the policies of Hitler " , and who " at critical moments have given support to the guiding principles of these policies : antisemitism , anti-communism , anti-democracy , hegemonic mission of the Reich in Europe , national-socialist " pacifism " . |
9 | Econometric studies of this type have given support to those in favour of limiting overall rates of tax . |
10 | The findings of the study , establishing a link between between pollution and chest and lung problems , has given support to communities throughout the country fighting for compensation . |
11 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
12 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
13 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
14 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
15 | In the late 1970s both Islington and Manchester Councils had given funding to voluntary groups , such as Friend and Switchboard . |
16 | The technique is a long way from being proved but it 's given hope to thousands |
17 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |
18 | We 've given money to organisations like the RSPB , Greenpeace , the Woodland Trust and Working Weekends on Organic Farms . ’ |
19 | Lords Forte , Taylor ( of the construction giant Taylor Woodrow ) , Weinstock , King , Edwin McAlpine , Matthews , Vinson and Sieff had also coincidentally been associated with companies which had given money to the Conservative cause . |
20 | The Land Rover does n't belong to me and I 've got to make sure that those who 've given money to the trust do n't have it wasted . ’ |
21 | And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike . |
22 | Ms Duffield has given money to Dulwich 's education activities in the past ; the present gift is intended to enable the gallery to survive for a year while it coordinates its long-term fundraising activities . |
23 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
24 | As most average families are in the bottom 60 per cent. , does not that show that the Government have given money to the rich at the expense of ordinary families ? |
25 | Sagawa 's chairman , Kiyoshi Sagawa , said on Feb. 13 that the company had given money to 280 politicians for use in " hiring secretaries " . |
26 | Mother and son alike became the passive , helpless witnesses to the demise , fall and dissolution of a man who had given direction to them both . |
27 | But to the ‘ rebellion ’ ( which may have given rise to something far deeper , as we shall see ) we must add two further emphases which we have italicised . |
28 | DRG 's property assets have also given rise to argument . |
29 | It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age . |
30 | The academic literature on the Prime Minister has given rise to one of the few serious debates in British political science ; the idea of Prime Ministerial government versus that of Cabinet government . |