Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable .
2 Tim will be buried in the Everton shorts along with a signed Everton shirt given to him by the members of his favourite team .
3 However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) .
4 ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union . ’
5 ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade , who have done all they can to help me over the years since the fire , and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union for underwriting the risks of my legal claim . ’
6 ( b ) ‘ authorised insurers ’ , ‘ the Council ’ , ‘ practising certificate ’ , ‘ the roll ’ and ‘ the Society ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ;
7 ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ;
8 ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ;
9 She retreated to the kitchen to cook breakfast but the odd sentence floated to her through the smells of frying bacon and toasting bread .
10 Again , paradoxically , objects are seen as increasingly exchangeable with one another , but also increasingly specific in terms of the particular values assigned to them in the form of prices .
11 Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " .
12 North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders .
13 They 're using a bank pamphlet given to them at the time as their evidence .
14 The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text .
15 Our full terms of reference and supplementary guidance given to us by the Secretary of State for Education and Science are contained in appendices 2 and 3 .
16 Another power of the president given to him by the constitution ?
17 As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered .
18 With its incredible wealth — about £6 million estimated annual income has been suggested — and ownership of about nine thousand manors came inevitable corruption as the Templars took advantage of the privileges granted to them by the Pope .
19 You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders .
20 They demanded the immediate payment of the bonus promised to them by the government , but not payable until 1945 .
21 Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered .
22 I got back to Ingard House a bit after four o'clock , and went up to rooms 207–8 , the offices allotted to us for the purposes of our audit .
23 Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor .
24 Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables .
25 He drinks the tea brought to us by the koko gravely , and makes exasperated noises .
26 I do n't think anyone will dispute that those are not offices suited to us in the nineties .
27 What he sues for in each case is loss caused to him by the use of an unlawful weapon against him — intimidation of another person by unlawful means . ’
28 An agent residing on each client provides the machine with operating operating parameters delivered to it from the application residing on an administrator 's host system .
29 In Tudor times Henry VIII made a valiant attempt to collect some of the revenue lost to him by the employment of the " use " .
30 This person was in fact an undischarged bankrupt who wrote to the plaintiff as being recommended by the editor and who misappropriated the funds sent to him by the plaintiff for investment .
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