Example sentences of "[be] [adv] give to " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 2 | Despite , or perhaps because of , this late arrival social anthropologists are much given to tracing their intellectual pedigree to as remote and as illustrious ancestors as they can uncover . |
| 3 | Those whom we call ‘ self-made men ’ are much given to this hideous barbarism … |
| 4 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | SOME families are more given to kissing than others ; one sees them at railway stations kissing a whole carriage-full of friends as they prepare to say goodbye . |
| 7 | Courses are also given to students reading for the degree in Human Sciences , and for a number of postgraduate degrees in area studies . |
| 8 | Demonstrations are also given to staff and to sixth formers with an emphasis on careers and higher education information . |
| 9 | Heavy writing jobs such as brochures are often given to freelancers who specialise in subjects like financial or technical writing . |
| 10 | These are often given to very low birthweight babies ( under about 4lb ) as they are easy to digest and have a different balance of salts or minerals , especially calcium and sodium , to breast milk . |
| 11 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 12 | Company rules stated that , before a person could be dismissed for misconduct , two previous warning notes had to be formally given to the offender , placing on record the gravity of the offence . |
| 13 | The two divers , Chief Petty Officer Carrington and Petty Officer Grant , were curiously alike , both aged about thirty , of medium height and compact build : both were much given to smiling , a cheerfulness that in no way detracted from their almost daunting aura of competence . |
| 14 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 15 | The entire box office receipts were normally given to the lucky artiste . |
| 16 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 17 | The same questions as those in the mental test were also given to some pupils as a standard written test so that performance on it could be compared with the two mental test versions . |
| 18 | Half-day training courses were also given to our telephone operators as part of the long term aim at increasing our effectiveness in the use of the telephone . |
| 19 | Additional responsibilities were also given to the two other ministers of state : Maneka Gandhi was given the portfolio of Programme Implementation and M. G. K. Menon given Human Resource Development . |
| 20 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
| 21 | Five seats were also given to the Ittehad-i-Islami , a Saudi-backed fundamentalist Wahhabi Sunni group led by Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf , whose fighters had been involved in fierce street battles with Wahdat in Kabul on June 2-6 . |
| 22 | So as to keep a fair balance , invitations were also given to all other parties contesting the by-election , only one of which was finally taken up by the Scottish National Party , about a week later . |
| 23 | Questionnaires were also given to students to allow individual opinions to be expressed outside of the group discussions . |
| 24 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 25 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 26 | They , they were probably given to them secondhand an'all |
| 27 | Specialised assignments were often given to smaller firms offering particular expertise in that sector , with generally good results . |
| 28 | His energies were mainly given to evangelism and the study of prophecy , but he also tirelessly opposed the teaching of Catholics , Irvingites , and the Quakers whose communion he had earlier abandoned . |
| 29 | At its most blatant , posts which had once been the preserve of dons from Oxford or Cambridge were now given to businessmen . |
| 30 | His financial skills were freely given to the work of the church and the warmth of his welcome to visitors and his genuine interest in people made him a host of friends . |