Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 2 | Many UK libraries provide a subject index linking alphabetically arranged descriptive headings to classification codes . |
| 3 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 4 | My postbag is the proof that a season 's secrecy — until Lamb forced some overdue action — has exposed professional cricket to the public as a game prepared to condone or cover-up cheating . |
| 5 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 6 | Between them they reduced the number of officers and assigned specific duties to those that remained . |
| 7 | Basler have undertaken extensive modifications to the already capacious DC-3 cargo door . |
| 8 | Both Catholic and evangelical churches ( particularly those based in the United States ) have given economic aid to villages , particularly in the Ixil ‘ development pole ’ . |
| 9 | Discussion of the various phenomena of ‘ exposure learning ’ in Chapter 1 revealed just such an effect — rats given prolonged exposure to a pair of stimuli presented in their home cages learned a subsequent simultaneous discrimination between these stimuli more readily than subjects for whom the test stimuli were novel ( Gibson and Walk 1956 ) . |
| 10 | We have given strong support to the Sports Council and its efforts to raise participation in sport . |
| 11 | The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning . |
| 12 | And now " The Meeting having given due consideration to the want of a regular and resident Surgeon in the Island , and conceive that such a person is much wanted , and they know that in general the practice and payments to a medical person is inadequate to support him in decency , and although a liberal subscription was opened and entered into by individuals still the supply would be scanty and unequal to the support of an educated person and a gentleman . |
| 13 | 1821 " This Meeting having given due consideration to various kinds of theft committed in the Island — Resolve to stent themselves in a sum ( £20 ) … for the purpose of detecting and prosecuting such persons as may be found guilty of theft . " |
| 14 | How often in the past have I not given due credence to relatives ' statements of how bad the client was ? |
| 15 | In seeking to escape from this conclusion it was submitted in argument that the reasoning of the judgment did not show , or show sufficiently , that Thorpe J. had given due weight to W. 's wishes and that accordingly he had misdirected himself . |
| 16 | Given due attention to other departments of the team plus average luck and good management ( rare commodities in recent times , I admit ) I see nothing wrong and everything right with the purchase of Nigel Clough . |
| 17 | Of the 653 branches only 288 had given definite support to disaffiliation , some by small majorities . |
| 18 | The car has been featured on a number of occasions at Rolls-Royce Ansty , when Geoff has treated retiring colleagues to a very special trip home in a very special car . |
| 19 | It is becoming increasingly apparent that drugs , which act through mechanisms other than acid inhibition , can control duodenal ulcer disease as effectively as H 2 receptor atagonists ; the findings of this study suggest that stimulation of normal gastroduodenal motility ( and thus acid clearance from the bulb ) may be an important mechanism in this respect , but one which has received scant attention to date . |
| 20 | Rats were given extensive pre-exposure to a tone which was followed on some randomly chosen trials by a mild electric shock and on other trials by no event at all ( i.e. they received a partial reinforcement schedule ) . |
| 21 | The social fund has given extensive help to people in real need . |
| 22 | DOCTORS have taught pregnant women to be an anxious lot . |
| 23 | The two companies ' more obvious synergies , claims le Quement , extend to design and he 's already given free access to Renault 's Billancourt design centre to all Volvo 's senior designers . |
| 24 | A plaque bearing the name of the adopter is displayed in the park and the adopter is given free entry to the park for a year . |
| 25 | All who finish will be given free entry to the show on July 26th . |
| 26 | THE Prince of Wales has given generous presents to his Highgrove staff . |
| 27 | Last night 's statement said Mr Barnes ‘ has given careful consideration to the material furnished by the CPS ’ . |
| 28 | while the directors have given careful consideration to whether the company will continue to be a going concern , the directors ' statements can not be a guarantee that that will happen . |
| 29 | It was clear from the sentencer 's observations that he had given careful consideration to these matters . |
| 30 | I have given careful consideration to the representations I have received on the level of settlement and the views that the local authority associations in coming to my final decisions . |