Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slightly confusingly named Utsly-Gtsly , this model is one of many Nakamura creations made up from sketches given to him by flat-proud clients with 200,000 yen to spend |
| 2 | The chamber will deal with environmental disputes between states referred to it by UN members . |
| 3 | To make the formal application you will need to complete the forms given to you by your Environmental Health Officer . |
| 4 | Biological factors assume importance in many stratification systems because of the meanings assigned to them by different cultures . |
| 5 | ( ca ) ‘ foreign lawyer ’ and ‘ registered foreign lawyer ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them by section 89 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 ; |
| 6 | ( b ) ‘ authorised insurers ’ , ‘ the Council ’ , ‘ practising certificate ’ , ‘ the roll ’ and ‘ the Society ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 7 | ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 8 | ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 9 | Some churches also long possessed objects given to them by Cnut , which occasionally bore inscriptions to that effect , like the reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which he presented to the monastery of Abingdon . |
| 10 | Again , paradoxically , objects are seen as increasingly exchangeable with one another , but also increasingly specific in terms of the particular values assigned to them in the form of prices . |
| 11 | DHSS requires firms to notify any adverse reactions reported to them within a month of receipt . |
| 12 | Among the items Jean-Claude chose were antiquarian books given to me by Helmut in the expectation that my reading horizons , which stretched no further than the English classics , might be enlarged by beautiful print and binding and lavish illustra-tions , and a collection of now rare pre-war recordings of the Beethoven quartets and the song-cycles of Schumann and Schubert recorded in private performances . |
| 13 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 14 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 15 | True , Edward 's failure on the expedition of 1359–60 ( when he had not been able to capture either Reims , where kings of France were crowned , or Paris , the capital ) meant that he had to forego the important territorial concessions made to him in 1359 , including Normandy and the Angevin lands in central-western France . |
| 16 | With its incredible wealth — about £6 million estimated annual income has been suggested — and ownership of about nine thousand manors came inevitable corruption as the Templars took advantage of the privileges granted to them by the Pope . |
| 17 | Rachel 's eyes shot to his in a moment of intensity that made her skin burn with heat . |
| 18 | This enables a student to optimise the opportunities presented to him without prejudice to his progression through the examination system . |
| 19 | Reporters and photographers recorded the images presented to them of a couple who smiled and carried out their duties professionally , but barely exchanged a word , a touch or a glance . |
| 20 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 21 | These grow and mature until it becomes a flower , a tree , a tiger or a human being — or whatever it is destined to become — depending on the characteristics transmitted to it through its inherited material , the genes , which are grouped together in its chromosomes . |
| 22 | There 's a process getting the kids used to it with dummy running so that the picture you get is a realistic one . |
| 23 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 24 | The third servant simply buried the funds entrusted to him in a hole in the ground for safekeeping and was condemned for his worthlessness because he had not even taken the ( virtually riskless ) alternative of leaving the money on deposit with the bankers . |
| 25 | The fighters agreed to it in Geneva in January , and again in Athens this month . |
| 26 | I got back to Ingard House a bit after four o'clock , and went up to rooms 207–8 , the offices allotted to us for the purposes of our audit . |
| 27 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 28 | I do n't think anyone will dispute that those are not offices suited to us in the nineties . |
| 29 | He kissed Laura , sat down , and tried to bring the two subjects put to him into order , and under one heading . |
| 30 | Perhaps the Prime Minister , in the few months left to him in that position , will think about visiting the Council of Europe Assembly so that we can determine whether the British Government actually envisage a role for the Council of Europe . |