Example sentences of "[verb] given to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 2 | The key verse , Leviticus 17:11 , says that sacrifice is something that God has given to man : it is his provision for human need . |
| 3 | We are grateful to the English Working Group for the thought it has given to assessment issues . |
| 4 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 5 | Their potential importance has risen with the emphasis that the 1990 NHS Act has given to consumer-responsiveness . |
| 6 | At one stage I had the same reservations , but in the light of the experience of the last six years and the credibility that the festival has given to drama with elected members , headteachers , and officers of the Authority , I am convinced that , at any rate for Leeds , this annual festival is helping to develop the quality of drama in the Authority ( pp. 44–45 ) . |
| 7 | The additional money that he has given to health and school building and repairs will also be welcomed by the people of Scotland . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the emphasis that he has given to housing , bearing in mind the homeless problem , and to Scottish Enterprise , will be valuable in terms of employment ? |
| 9 | C. T. threw himself into Christian activity with the same discipline and dedication he had given to cricket , and determined to join another well-known Cambridge athlete , Stanley Smith the oarsman , in the then little-known China Inland Mission led by J. Hudson Taylor [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | The prominence he had given to instruction in science had evidently made matters worse . |
| 11 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 12 | These experiments are , however , still pulsed , and it would be extremely valuable if a true continuous wave all-optical passive resonator system could be developed , to give the sort of experimental impetus that the xenon and helium-xenon lasers have given to laser instabilities . |
| 13 | In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ . |
| 14 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |