Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 2 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 3 | This gives an IR spectrum containing absorptions belonging to methane , ethane , ethylene and three new peaks assigned to the methyl radical . |
| 4 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 5 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 6 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 7 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 8 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 9 | THE family of the young Donegal woman dismembered by a 19-year-old man today slammed the three year prison sentence given to the killer . |
| 10 | Both words were used to push the Morrissey vision of men 's liberation ; not , as it may sound , a freedom given to the Penthouse reading hordes but a glimpse of Morrissey 's ideal world where gender barriers are entirely dispensed with . |
| 11 | Among the most beautiful are the ‘ Morgenlied ’ ( track 3 ) and the autumn song , Phoebus hunting with his horses ; the freedom given to the three vocal parts is a conspicuous feature of the latter . |
| 12 | A special book has been illustrated by Sister Frances Therese at the Carmelite Convent to record every donation given to the hospice in memory of someone who has died . |
| 13 | He was stripped to the waist and as he jogged along between the shafts a few coins — obviously his meagre earnings for the day — jingled pathetically in a leather pouch fastened to the back of his belt . |
| 14 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 15 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 16 | The serums were mainly calf lymph for the whooping cough patients , and the diphtheria anti-toxin given to the patients who needed this . |
| 17 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |
| 18 | According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors . |
| 19 | The legal cloak given to the US action by the formal request for US assistance by the new government of President Guillerm Endara is not convincing , since the government was sworn in on a US military base with a US general standing by . |
| 20 | Recent discoveries at the site of the Graeco-Roman city of Hierapolis in ancient Phrygia , made during this summer 's season of work by an Italian team , include a marble basilica situated to the north of the city , forming one corner of an extensive agora ( 280 x 180m ) , the largest of its type in the Roman world yet uncovered , and bounded on the other three sides by stoas . |
| 21 | As to more general options for change , the Board referred to the possibilities of exclusive or semi-exclusive ‘ contracting , ’ and of ‘ franchising . ’ |
| 22 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 23 | The popular image of Mrs Beeton as a middle-aged housewife given to the confection of extravagant recipes is doubly mistaken . |
| 24 | The cheque given to the jeweller proved worthless and he sued the pawnbroker to recover the ring . |
| 25 | This right to redress which the law confers on the possessor is independent of , and at least as old as , if not older than , the legal protection given to the owner . |
| 26 | The most important difference was the protection given to the embalmed body itself . |
| 27 | Yet where egg products exposed to the risk of contamination are involved , such as mayonnaise , the association is extraordinarily strong . |
| 28 | The support given to the Urban Foundation showed British recognition of the acute shortage of housing for blacks in South Africa 's urban areas , a move welcomed by Nthato Motlana , chairman of Soweto 's civic association . |
| 29 | Whilst most parents ' groups continued to focus on mutual support , these examples of service provision represent a considerable net addition to the facilities available in the County ; they also reflect the powerful moral and practical support given to the development of parents ' groups by the CMHTs . |
| 30 | An important factor was the support given to the proposal from both the republicans and the CSJ , which as a Dungannon-based group was particularly important . |