Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | DHSS requires firms to notify any adverse reactions reported to them within a month of receipt . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They 're using a bank pamphlet given to them at the time as their evidence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is common for bulk work providers to have a lawyer assigned to them as a contact point . |
| 18 | Another power of the president given to him by the constitution ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Rachel 's eyes shot to his in a moment of intensity that made her skin burn with heat . |
| 23 | Reporters and photographers recorded the images presented to them of a couple who smiled and carried out their duties professionally , but barely exchanged a word , a touch or a glance . |
| 24 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 25 | They demanded the immediate payment of the bonus promised to them by the government , but not payable until 1945 . |
| 26 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 27 | The third servant simply buried the funds entrusted to him in a hole in the ground for safekeeping and was condemned for his worthlessness because he had not even taken the ( virtually riskless ) alternative of leaving the money on deposit with the bankers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |