Example sentences of "[be] given to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 3 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 4 | Will the hon. Gentleman give an assurance , which is urgently needed on Merseyside , that every effort will be made to ensure that contracts for Irish sea exploration are given to firms in the north-west of England in general and to Merseyside in particular ? |
| 5 | Under the fund 's rules grants are given to projects if they promote the development of declining or under-developed regions , improve their infrastructure and create jobs . |
| 6 | Many birds and mammals may have alarm calls that are given to objects that other members of their species have indicated are frightening . |
| 7 | To assist them the Government has made the west of the region a Development Area in which special grants are given to industries . |
| 8 | When tests are given to adults , it may increase co-operation if a test has high face validity . |
| 9 | Problems requiring information are given to pupils both as individuals and as members of groups and formative evaluation , both by teachers and pupils , of their inquiry/communication skills will be an integral part of the Unit . |
| 10 | Certain opportunities are given to backbenchers to choose the subject matter for debate . |
| 11 | But ten times as many children of divorce live with their mothers as with their fathers ; more than eighty-five per cent of divorces , granted on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour , are given to wives complaining about their husbands ' conduct , and the number of wives made to pay off their ex-husbands is still tiny . |
| 12 | Any other newspapers are given to E Sheret ie Sun , Advertisers , East Lothian News , etc . |
| 13 | P&O Ferries Ltd — Concessionary rates are given to Group employees and close relatives travelling on the P&O Ferries Orkney and Shetland Services — Aberdeen/Lerwick and Scrabster/Stromness routes . |
| 14 | ’ 'T IS bruited about that the king is unwell and that you are given to displays of temperament ! |
| 15 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 16 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 17 | When no specific instruction are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 18 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 19 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently , Guidelines on layouts are published in the British Standards Institution booklet ‘ Guide to Typewriting ’ ( PD 6506 : 1982 ) . |
| 20 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 21 | A sequence of six lines with the same rhyme are given to Dame Sirith as , initially , she professes her conventional goodness and innocence to Wilekin : ( " I am a holy woman ; I know nothing of witchcraft but with almsgiving to good men I sustain my life each day , and offer my paternoster and my creed that God should help those in their need who help me my life to lead and should grant that all should go well with them … ) |
| 22 | It is possible a feeling existed that too much attention had been given to development in the western and most populous counties in the District . |
| 23 | More recently , however , such theories have been extensively criticized ; the concept of development has been broadened again to take account of social and cultural , as well as economic , features ; and more attention has been given to development as a world-wide process in which there is a close interrelationship between events in different regions . |
| 24 | Encouragement has been given to individualism , free enterprise and the pursuit of profit . |
| 25 | Yes , and you get all the animals who are experimented on and you sa there 's not a week that comes out and you do n't an a report saying , oh well this this , this causes cancer in rats or and you , imagine the amount , the huge amounts of the sub , whatever substance it is that had been given to rats to cause the cancer , and there 's no knowing that the amount that 's gon na be given to rats causing cancer , will give cancer to humans ! |
| 26 | The evident conclusion is that the policy basis on which aid has been given to Africa has not been fulfilled . |
| 27 | It was first discovered by Gallard in 1884 , but credit has been given to Dieulafoy who described it in 1889 . |
| 28 | Of the four co-ordination problems identified in this paper as important to anaphor resolution , that of co-ordinating multiple knowledge sources is certainly the one to which most attention has been given to date . |
| 29 | The financial allocations for 1992-93 have already been given to member states and plans and programmes are being prepared on a minimum change basis . |
| 30 | The group based its objection on the assurance that had been given to parliament that the hearing would not be held until the inspectorate was satisfied with the PWR 's safety . |