Example sentences of "[adv] given to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 2 | If he did not touch such heights again , he remained a thoroughly reliable keeper right to the end , small , neat and quiet , and rarely given to histrionics . |
| 3 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 4 | Among the drawings Oberhuber transfers to Giorgione a group hitherto given to Giulio Campagnola — a logical step which may or may not prove correct . |
| 5 | This is regarded as a really good job showing that there are no real job opportunities for blacks as jobs are really only given to whites because of the racial prejudice in Maycomb . |
| 6 | There is no natural landing place , the seas are fierce , and permission to land is only given to groups who are have a suitable boat , and who are well provisioned , capable , and with a proven interest in an outdoor topic . |
| 7 | While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are . |
| 8 | The full amount is only given to people whose income does not exceed £14,200 . |
| 9 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 10 | Less given to aerobatics than Bar-tailed Godwit . |
| 11 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 12 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 13 | He was also much given to quotations and he quoted now . |
| 14 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 15 | Much given to allusions and cryptic references , all made , for good measure , in a Macedonian dialect . ’ |
| 16 | Dalmellington , when I knew it , was very much a traditional Ayrshire mining village , with friendly people , much given to laughter and fun . |
| 17 | He was much given to questions and hilarity . |
| 18 | He was not a man , she had decided , much given to compassion . |
| 19 | Mr Gilligrew seems ideally cut out to be leader of a protest group : insecure , loud , unhumorous , indignant , unpleasant , small and much given to counting points off on his fingers . |
| 20 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 21 | Performances of Brahms 's piano sonatas tend to be either vigorous or spacious , the one approach emphasizing the impetuous element in this music written before he was 21 , and the other reminding us that even the young Brahms was a dour northerner much given to self-doubt . |
| 22 | Greater weight is generally given to propositions which have stood the test of time . |
| 23 | Right , carrying on erm for the subject of erm compensation over and above erm that which is normally given to people who move from one place to another when , when they 're , they 're f h h have to be , |
| 24 | The sun shone warm and the air was now very pure : a calm reflective day , not given to laughter . |
| 25 | She said that in any case , ‘ she was not given to crying ’ . |
| 26 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 27 | The Martians were , if we may venture a fanciful interpretation of their character from the gantries , the dry vats , oubliettes and occluded vaults , the forthright aspect of their stairways , gutters and conduits , as of the famous canals themselves , a serious and resolute people , thorough in their undertakings , not given to digression or frivolity . |
| 28 | Elevenses were not given to clerks then . |
| 29 | Somewhere in her thirties , long abandoned by a useless husband , and with two small children to bring up , she was not given to self-analysis . |
| 30 | A sleepy old town is Devizes Not given to chaos and crisis The major event 's A canoe race in Lent With stiff backs and sore bums as prizes ! |